Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final club himself, he gave them all tolerant treatment. As Chairman of the Committee on the Regulation of Non-Athletic Activities, he was keeper of the lists of officers and members of such groups as the Debating Council, the Dramatic Club, the Glee Club, and Instrumental Clubs, and had oversight of their functions...
...Roosevelt will trade each other's pants off, thus leaving each still with one pair of pants, seemed the likely issue of their conjunction this week in Washington. Last week they had already started being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington...
...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...Supreme Court the case of four oilmen jailed for violating a supposed provision of the Petroleum Code. A trial court ruled the provision unconstitutional. The Department of Justice prepared to appeal the decision only to discover that the provision was no part of the land's law. By some oversight it had been left out of the revised copy signed by President Roosevelt though included in printed copies circulated by the Petroleum Administration (TIME, Oct. 22). The oil companies' attorney last week assured the Supreme Court that the only true copy of the oil code he had ever seen...
Still another group, made up of visitors who had twisted themselves into contortionists and gazed at the picture from a horizontal position, deplored the oversight of the directors, who had failed to try the sideways possibilities. These men called themselves "Sidewaysians" and their spokesman said, "I think it should be hung sideways. It looks just like a bulkhead door opening...