Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When students go inter-Housing in the evening, they have most likely forgotten the morning wisdom of their instructors. But at lunchtime, when they have just quit classes, they may remember some small parts of the lectures. They may even want to discuss them. Unless the classmates live in the same house, their aim is frustrated; there is no inter-House at lunch...
...past was erased, wrote Orwell, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth...
When the Amethyst got back to England, Simon was interned for the regulation six months' quarantine required of animals entering the country, but his grateful nation had not forgotten him. Reporters from far & wide came to see and photograph the solemn hero, and he was promised the Dickin Medal* for heroic animals, to be awarded by London's Lord Mayor on his release...
...four parchments brought to America six months ago by the Assyrian Archbishop, the Lameck scroll is the only one of the group written in the almost forgotten language of Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ...
...recent discussions of the Harvard football situation, it has been completely forgotten that the College's athletic program must orient itself towards the major aims of the educational process. Now there is not doubt that sports, even though played mainly for relaxation and exercise, can contribute toward instilling the attitudes and mental skills approved by "general education." We are endlessly bombarded with pretty sentiments about how contact with teammates develops the players discipline, self-confidence and a number of other social traits--all very true and very important. Still we should no overlook the fact that athletics provide a creative...