Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists unearthed two small fossils that consisted of no more than partial jawbones and a few teeth. For many years, they gathered dust-one in London's British Museum, the other in the Calcutta Museum. The ancient bones were largely ignored by professionals and the public alike. That oversight may have been one of paleontology's biggest bloopers. After carefully studying those neglected fossils, two Yale investigators have now become convinced that they are rare remnants of the first manlike creatures on earth...
Tanner never did win great acclaim at home during his lifetime. But now Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts is about to correct the oversight with a retrospective of 80 paintings, drawings and studies that range from a pastoral done in his student days to a Return from the Crucifixion completed before his death...
...rank--what else was needed?--the Prince attracted people. They could see reflections of themselves in his eyes. But the Prince was worried. Was he really living? After worrying a long time, he saw that the people who really lived either had renounced their titles or, through some oversight, never had them. The Prince resolved to forget his title on a trial basis...
...there are very few law schools that would reject a prospective student because he was blind. At Harvard he finds he has to use readers, because the law texts are so immense; and unfortunately there were problems in obtaining readers at the beginning of this year because of an oversight by PBH. Charlie likes law because he is a rational, logical individual, and because it is a real challenge--everyone has warned him that he will have a great deal of trouble breaking into a law firm...
Determined to remedy that oversight, Bill White became embroiled with First National after it decided to form a holding company, a step that two rival Denver banks had already taken as a way of circumventing a Colorado law prohibiting branch banking. When the Whites suggested last month that five family-owned banks in southern Colorado be included in the holding company, called the First National Bancorporation, the bank replied that it would consider the request only after the new company went into operation...