Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designer may never be found out until the day of judgment," Neutra goes on, "but if he supplies his victims with a daily round of tiny or coarse irritations, unwittingly or not, he's a menace. It's the little sore we overlook which later proves malignant. To be used to having a telephone pole in front of your view window does not make it wholesome. Bad acoustics can lead to shouting, and this calls forth an argumentative mood...
...short, we certainly admit that advertising and publicity and even contracting could have been hauled more smoothly; however, to overlook the great progress that a small overworked committee has accomplished, and by exaggerating the results of one aspect, to call the whole year's work a failure, as the heading of the editorial does, is not only untrue, but also unfair. Donald L. Bornstein '50 Chairman, Harvard NSA P.C. Committee Chairman, Boston Area P.C.S...
...Radcliffe Room is a large room in the social center, with windows on three sides which overlook the Rokko hills. After the room was ready and in use, Radcliffe added to its equipment a gift of two dozen cups, saucers, and plates bearing Radcliffe designs...
...issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...
...Detroit brain trust was ready to overlook an occasional early-season error in judgment from the youngster they hoped would take over Joe DiMaggio's American League center-field crown some day. This week, in an exhibition game, the Yankees' Joe and the Tigers' Johnny got together for the first time. DiMaggio, hobbling by on his sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like...