Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore assume that this word appeared in your magazine in connection with Camden-the home of 118,700 honorable and respectable mothers, daughters and sisters as well as fathers, sons and brothers- as a result of a grievous oversight on the part of your proofreaders and your editorial staff...
...Wednesday evening, Chairman William Edgar Borah of the Senate's potent Foreign Relations Committee had dinner alone with President Hoover. On Thursday Premier Laval arrived from France for White House "discussions." Through an "oversight," Senator Borah's invitation to the White House dinner that night did not arrive until 6:30 p. m. On Friday afternoon the first of the Hoover-Laval discussions got underway. Simultaneously, a dozen agreeably surprised French newspaper correspondents and some 30 U. S. newshawks were ushered into the big meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office Building, their request...
...Willicombe and Thomas J. White, general man ager of all Hearstpapers, who were there, too. But their smiles must have frozen when, three days later, they discovered that ever since the party the line at the top of the real Examiner's cinema page had, by some excruciating oversight, carried the slug: "... A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO DRINK...
...encourages him to make efforts at novel-writing in her apartment. Presently the Carters are divorced, Bart marries and goes abroad with Mildred, while Peggy supports the children by running a dress store. After ten years, celebrated and so rich that he can afford an automobile (which, by an oversight, greatly resembles the one in which Mildred took him away), Bart Carter returns. Pleased with his children, he loses his enthusiasm for Mildred. Authentic episodes-such as the one in which Peggy (Lois Wilson), when her children have gone away to school, consoles herself with a plateful of cinnamon buns...
...those alumni who fought for Germany. Years of nationalistic tradition made the inclusion of Allied dead alone a matter of course. Very few people had any idea that there were Cornellians who had fought for the Central Powers. Fortunately the Harvard episode has brought our attention to a serious oversight and has given the University an opportunity to make a noble gesture...