Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson well appreciated that it was no half-an-hour job for a great industry to draft a constitution for itself, but he could not overlook that some industries were making fine profits now and might be in no hurry to raise their labor costs by adopting codes. With this in mind, Attorney General Cummings gave General Johnson a hand by calling industry's attention to the fact that the anti-trust laws are not suspended except for industries which had adopted trade codes approved by the President. General Johnson and the President wanted haste, wanted pressure...
...that in case of a U. S.-Japanese war. Lower California will become another Belgium, invaded by both countries. Spies, wrote General Seyde. have decided among themselves that the opening battle of this hypothetical war will be fought about a district known as the Five Hills. The Five Hills overlook a natural undefended harbor. Held by U. S. artillery they would prevent the landing of Japanese troops. Held by Japan they would protect her base. The Five Hills are just far enough from the U. S. frontier to give Japan a fairly even break in a race from...
...could overlook the lack of plot in "Ein Nacht im Paradies," if it had any of the qualities that in the past have made German musical-comedy films refreshing and amusing. But the photography is blurred, the parts overacted, and there is not a waltz during the whole performance...
...such times as these. There is an obligation resting upon us is do as a body, much more this year than we did last year toward helping some of the thousands among our fellow citizens who are constantly facing privations. In making this urgent general appeal, we do not overlook the fact that some Harvard officers have already given generously, perhaps as generously as they should, this year...
What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving-wing theory with infinite care for more than two years but has not progressed beyond preliminary wind-tunnel tests...