Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only an Oversight...
...first big Hogarth exhibition in London in more than 100 years. Nobody in Britain seemed able to explain the long oversight for sure. Roland Beckett, art historian and Hogarth expert, suspected it was the old trouble: "People think of him as a mere cartoonist...
...rule. In Rangoon, jeeps and Studebakers owned by Thakin Nu's partisans hustled voters through the driving rain to polling booths. Voting proceeded smoothly. The only untoward incident: in four of Rangoon's 106 polling places, poll watchers threw out all ballots because of a technical oversight-election officials had failed to stamp them with the required rhinoceros seal...
These are the improvements that the council and its committee have made-all of them in the direction of greater freedom and responsibility for the student. There are still restrictions that the council was apparently too tired to remove. By a quixotic oversight, it made rules on women stricter for those organizations inside the Student Activities Center than for those outside. The council also showed just enought respect for the College's "good name" policy to deny organizations the right to appear on radio and television programs without Dean's Office permission (this issue is actually academic since a Corporation...
...Frank, the biggest department store (and the biggest advertiser) in Portland, Ore., was charged with unfair labor practices last fall, neither the morning Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916) nor the rival evening Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) covered the story. Both papers privately said that it was merely an oversight, that they would report the National Labor Relations Board's final decision in the case in full (TIME...