Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have an idea which if put into effect might result in a 100 per cent increase in at least the number of subscribers to the Fund. In looking over the second annual report. I received two great surprises. In the first place, I must have neglected through oversight to contribute the second year, although I did the first. The second surprise was to observe the absence from the list of one of my closest friends while in College, a man who has made a great success, who lives at a great distance from me, but with whom my College friendship...
...first place, the examination questions, which are those for the regular divisional examination in English literature, were prepared much as usual at Harvard. The committee mentioned in the news story is the committee which has general oversight of the competition, and criticized and approved the questions for this purpose...
...conferred intelligently with his more technically expert subordinates and ordered what all agreed was best, including the delay in attaching airlines to the wreck's "ears." Moreover, said Secretary Wilbur, the Brumby record of 31 years in the Navy was so splendid as to overcome whatever "errors or oversight or failures" could be justly charged against him on his testimony...
Patriotism is one of the prime factors in the making of a one hundred per cent American citizen. This is forcibly brought to mind by a shocking oversight among the authorities. Good citizenship and loyalty are inextricably woven into one another, forming that solid and enduring core in every American's heart that makes him spontaneously whip off his hat when Old Glory comes marching down the street fluttering its red and white stripes to the bounding breeze. What a thrill the sight of Our Flag sends coursing through the red blood of every true citizen. "Hats off! The flag...
...Secretary of the Cambridge Anti-Tuberculosis Association earnestly'' requests that those who have, through carelessness or oversight, neglected to answer their appeal, either return the stamps or the money before College adjourns for the Christmas holidays. On the whole, it was announced, the response to the Association's campaign has so far been quite gratifying...