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Word: oversight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Bayard Livingston Kilgour '27 of Cincinnati, Ohio, was omitted from the list of nominees for next year's Student Council published in last Wednesday's CRIMSON, due to an oversight on the part of the Student Council. Kilgour was president of the class of 1927 during its Sophomore year, and has also played on the football team since he has been at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL OMITTED KILGOUR NOMINATION BY MISTAKE | 3/26/1926 | See Source »

Minds battled like searchlights fencing in a night sky. Reti of Czecho-Slovakia, who can play 25 games blindfolded, made an "oversight" which cost him a game in a few moves. Marshall of the U.S. held his own. But there was one man who played as if an immobile, enormous shape, looming unseen behind him, directed with Gargantuan fingers the movement of his smaller hands upon the Lilliputian kings. Once, it is true, he made a misplay, uncovered his queen. The watchers sucked in their breath. Surely now this Merlin was done for. But his opponent, Spielmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle in Baden-Baden | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Dyer '26, box chairman, also requests all applicants who failed to give their partners' names to correct the oversight at the same time and place. Otherwise they will be listed as stags...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Dance Applications to Close | 2/18/1925 | See Source »

...follows: those who won their degree; those who dropped out or were dropped; and those who were married too soon. The news has been confirmed that a prominent Yale undergraduate has been suspended for being married. Although "guilty" of marriage for a year, Century Milstead, through a strange oversight on the part of the college authorities, had continued in good standing. No real reason is given for his ejection: but rules have a reason all their own, and rules at Yale must reign relentless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTHER OF BACHELORS | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...Bryan, in Florida, said that he did not intend to attend the meeting but had joined in order to keep in touch with the Society's work. He also averred that it was purely an oversight on his part that the check which he sent the Society was unsigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Application | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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