Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kiss while we're dancing" should win many followers. Without the straining of muscles and gritting of teeth that is usually a characteristic of tap-dancers, Mr. Astaire whirls about the floor with apparently effortless grace. He also exhibits a surprisingly pleasing singing voice, which many people usually overlook in favor of his pedal activities...
...recent editorial, the Harvard CRIMSON quotes President Conant as saying that "there ought to be no separation of the faculty into those who teach and those who carry on creative work." While most educators recognize the value of research and the value of splendid teaching, there are many who overlook the point which President Conant, since assuming the presidency of Harvard, has so effectively maintained: that teaching and research are inextricably connected. While there are doubtless some few men who make inspiring teachers, and are yet temperamentally unfitted to carry the burden of investigation and creative study, such cases...
Senator Copeland of New York (Manhattan has a large Puerto Rican population) declared: ''To overlook the obligations we owe to Puerto Rico and its citizens is something I cannot approve. The act will add at least 200 million dollars a year to the cost of sugar. ... In short. we ruthlessly abandon Puerto Rico and dig into our pocketbooks for the beet sugar farmers...
...Baltic Sea- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-would hardly seem a menace to anybody. But they are close to the heart of Soviet Russia. Russia's door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries of the three. They took up the two-party non-aggression pacts they...
...inflation. Often known as "bootleg loans," they were beyond the reach of Federal Reserve control. Call loans are payable on demand, are secured largely by active listed stocks, are practically riskless. During 1929 the interest rate on call loans ranged between 5% and 20%. No good corporation treasurer could overlook that opportunity to use his idle funds. But the peak of all loans to all members of the New York Stock Exchange was $8,500,000,000-just one-half the figure which Inquisitor Pecora said was advanced by one company alone. By his calculations Standard...