Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduction of motor prices and the expansion of sales can be kept up, Detroit answers: "Forever!" Thus far, at least, Detroit has been right in its optimism. However, in more jaundiced and possibly less informed quarters, doubt on this score is frequently expressed; but it will not do to overlook the many refinements and economies possible with increased production. An example is in car-painting. The adoption of cellulose finish combinations now makes it possible to paint a car and turn it out within 24 hours. Even the Cadillac, which formerly took four to six weeks to paint...
...found that Senator Smoot was fully impressed with the great and far-reaching importance of promptly reaching a settlement. . . . On the other hand, he cannot overlook the fact that any adjustment arrived at between the representatives of the foreign nations and the Debt Commission of this country will have to go to Congress for final ratification. Unquestionably, many members of Congress will not view the problem in the broad light that it is entitled to, and will fight for the best settlement based upon a money consideration only. The fact which forms the fundamental basis of the world...
...through an idyll in Virginia. Edward barely escapes nervous wreckage at a memorable Democratic convention. Eleanor finds the low road tarred. The nice young couple are reunited on the high road of respectability and drive happily out of a study in U. S. heredity which is too good to overlook and too bad, considering the author's flashes of ability, to be excused
...maintaining order in Mexico, while at the same time taking advantage of revolutionary rumors to threaten that the U. S. would cease to have that interest unless American lives and interests were fully protected. This is, said the President, "a threat to the sovereignty of Mexico that she cannot overlook and regrets with all energy because she does not accord to any foreign country the right to intervene in any form in her domestic affairs, nor is she disposed to subordinate her international relations to the exigencies of another country...
...deplorable fact that managers frequently have to send to England for men who can merely wear clothes and appear like gentlemen. Theatres are simply falling over themselves to get contracts for the two or three men in New York who can take these parts, and yet college men totally overlook the stage as a road to wealth and fame. I imagine they do so because it 'isn't done', but it is done in England and there is no reason why it shouldn't be done here...