Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographic industry were delighted that TIME saw fit to devote a cover story [Nov. 2] to photography . . . However, I felt that a needless oversight was made in not mentioning anywhere in the article the fact that a camera exists which delivers a finished picture right on the spot, without the necessity of making that trip to the drugstore which your article mentions. I realize that the story was intended to deal primarily with photography as an art form but . . . I'll guarantee you that you will find the Polaroid Land process high on almost anybody's list...
Massachusetts politics are not the cleanest in the country. So when a man whose pet project is stamping out gambling and corruption runs for office, he deserves special consideration. Through an unfortunate oversight, last Wednesday's editorial on the Cambridge City Council neglected to mention such a man, Andrew Trodden. Along with Marcus Morton, he is the brightest light among the non-incumbents in the field...
...Monday, Elliott Perkins '23, master of Lowell House, revealed that the housemasters had informally agreed on the Saturday night restriction last December, but "through an oversight" had not made it public...
Through an oversight, Perkins said, the agreement was not made public. "We were crossing our bridges when we came to them, although looking back on it, it might have been handier to say something about it at the time," Perkins added...
...Passed a resolution, retroactive to March 1, 1803, making Ohio a state. There was no real doubt about Ohio's legitimacy (although a congressional oversight left a technical doubt about the exact day on which the state was admitted to the Union); the resolution was a publicity stunt by Cleveland's noisy Representative George Bender to attract attention to Ohio's sesquicentennial celebration this year...