Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of an oversight on the part of officials of the University maintenance department, the word "Yale" is inscribed on the locks of 70 doors in Randolph Hall, now part of Adams House. The new installation were made following the discovery three months ago by Charles R. Apted '06, superintendent of caretakers, that the old Russwin locks would pen to almost no key, a situation which caused confusion to bewildered students returning late at night...
...editorials on football, appearing respectively on March 8, 17, and 18, which expresses these fundamental delusions as stated below, will be paid five dollars immediately and with our compliments, (judgment to be reasonable and not to be extended to over 30 men in case the News has made some oversight...
...Lindbergh returned from New York by motor. He had a speaking engagement in Manhattan that night but neglected it through an oversight. He ate dinner and afterward took a seat in his living room directly under one of the nursery's three windows, all of which were closed but none of which was locked...
...killing of Francis Donaldson III by Edward Allen was considered newsworthy by TIME. Is not Allen's acquittal part of the contemporary scene or is the omission of it in the Feb. 15 issue an oversight...
...University are now so numerous that a more uniform and comprehensive system has become a necessity. In former times, of smaller things, each dean or director engaged, controlled and paid his employees, and attended to the cleaning and care of the buildings he used, subject to little oversight save in his total expenditure. Gradually the janitor's service, the cleaning and the like have been centralized under the office of the Comptroller, but uniform treatment of employees was not wholly insured. During the past year the Corporation called upon the Industrial Relations Counselors of New York to inspect and report...