Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticise Yale's action as surreptitiously cheating on the eligibility agreement or to demand that Yale give up fall makeup exams is simply to overlook the facts of the case...
...this moment of hilarity and self-congratulation over three centuries of progress, Harvard can scarcely overlook the gratitude displayed by her alumni. The great majority of Harvard graduates feel, and rightly, too, that they have gained far more than they have given the University. As time passes, each alumnus sees more clearly that four years was a small portion of his life to pay for the experience which he obtained at Cambridge...
Photographers will be up in the air today and tomorrow. Coops for these taking pictures have been placed so that they overlook the restrum...
Well aware are U. S. Communists that they may shout themselves hoarse in Manhattan's Union Square without getting a word of encouragement through the Nazi Press censorship to their comrades underground in Germany. To create an international incident which the German Press could scarcely overlook and thus to assure German Communists that U. S. Communists were still with them, a party of Manhattan Marxists last year raided the German Liner Bremen at the price of a half-dozen cracked pates, tore the Swastika off its forepeak, tossed it into the Hudson River (TIME. Aug. 5. 1935). Last week...
Died. Maude Younger, 66, oldtime feminist, National Women's Party lobbyist in Washington"(1916-20) at the time the 19th Amendment was passed; of an intestinal infection; at Overlook Ranch, Los Gatos, Calif...