Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consistent reader and subscriber of TIME and do not overlook an opportunity to boost your paper. . . . Once or twice in the past I have noticed certain facts about automobiles that you have stated, which are not exactly in accord with my own knowledge and information. . . . For instance, in a recent issue [TIME, Jan. 24] you had quite a story regarding the New York Show, and I was greatly disappointed not to see any mention of the new Little Marmon 8 which, without question, was one of the most striking exhibits at the Show, and is today one of the most...
...disgrace to the State of Massachusetts. . . . Nine acres of that land was bought by the people of Massachusetts in 1920, for $20,000, to become a War Memorial; and the tenth acre was given by the adjacent community of St. Mihiel. . . . The Sacred Rocks of St. Mihiel overlook that land. Moreover it is on the main highway between St. Mihiel and Verdun. . . ." Thus cried Representative Slater Washburn of Worcester in the State Legislature of Massachusetts last week, and went on to explain himself as follows...
...Great Britain can afford to be generous and to overlook actions that would probably have precipitated armed conflict in the days of the Opium Wars, it might be possible for the United States to act with equal grace in Mexico and Nicaragua. The situations are admittedly different, yet trade welfare and the protection of nationals and their property has to be considered by Great Britain in China as well as by the United States in Central America. But it is believed in England that the former methods were not as helpful as more generous ones. There seems...
...ladies seem, one might almost say wilfully, to overlook the fact that the librarian besides being feminine, was also American. And America, it will be remembered, is not a member of the League. Germany, on the other hand, has just joined and in reward for such good behaviour, richly deserves a plum or two. So argues Sir Eric. But telegrams beseeching and threatening continue to arrive...
...respectable." But Playwright Molnar is nothing if not ingenious. He has even given Johann Dwornits-chek, footman, a personality. Ralph Nairn plays the part. The entire cast, headed by Holbrook Blinn, ably supports the playwright in offering a rare, charming, skilful entertainment, one that wise play-goers will not overlook...