Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Amendments I to X to the Constitution were submitted to Massachusetts for ratification, "your honorable predecessors," said Governor Saltonstall, "failed to act because they became involved in an attempt to propose even more inclusive definitions of the rights of the people." Governor Saltonstall suggested that the forefathers' oversight be rectified on or about the Bill of Rights' 139th birthday, March...
...about it," said Architect John A. Holabird. Only committee member who admitted working on The Truth was Chairman John T. Pirie, president of State Street's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Starchy Mr. Pirie could not explain why his fellow members had not seen the report, snapped: "Simply an oversight-somebody bungled." Next day The Truth was withdrawn from circulation as mysteriously as it had been issued...
...Oregon Central Military Road Co. received a land grant for one of its roads, the building of which was accomplished "simply by driving an ox-cart over the country while two men trudged along behind with shovels on their shoulders." The grant, by an oversight, included 111,385 acres reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw...
...utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life; intramural athletics are strenuously cultivated and social events benignly encouraged, but the task of stimulating thought and discussion in the Houses has been left to very occasional common room orators. As a partial remedy to this oversight, the Debating Council's plan to organize House Debating teams is worth serious consideration...
...doubt the editorial was a slight oversight, as it was inconsistent with previous high standards. Sincerely, Malcolm Jenna...