Word: overlooking
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...Times will not overlook reticence on your part." The Times had reason to be pleased with Reporter Woollcott. In 1914 it fulfilled his "life's ambition...
...danger confronting us, as I see it, is that we will overlook the natural resilience of the economy. If we were to attempt in Washington to see that every manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer got his exact share of released manpower or materials . . . we should get in the way of reconversion rather than speed...
When a motion picture features the unbridled individuality of Jimmy Durante, the uncontested childhood charm of Margaret O'Brien, and artistry on the piano by Jose Iturbi, it becomes quite easy to overlook accompanying faults. "Music for Millions" may be somewhat wearing in its trite two-hour tug at wartime heart strings, but it is well stocked with talent that comes to the rescue during emotionally topheavy moments...
...Shipping Operator Douglas did not overlook the place of a merchant fleet in national defense. The U.S.'s remaining 10,000,000 tons (to be used chiefly in coastwise trade) would be a sufficient backlog. And on the tonnage sold or leased, the U.S. should tie enough strings to make it available if needed for another war. But it will never be needed, Lew Douglas argued, if his program is carried...
...Philadelphian Struthers Burt sees it, Philadelphians in general have been much like Dr. Mitchell. Citizens of the "spoiled child of American cities," they have always tended to overlook their distinctions as well as their oddities. Prosperous from the start, with fourscore cottages in its first year (1683), at the time of the Revolution Philadelphia was bigger than any English city except London. It was once the headquarters of the Revolution, once the capital of the Republic, once the banking, theatrical and art center of North America. It still contains more trees than any other city on earth, and leads...