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Word: overlooking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent and informative article on Paul McNutt in TIME, July 10, you overlook one fact of great importance; a fact which ought to be understood by the American people, since Mr. McNutt is already so much in the public eye and is so ambitious for the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...next noticed that The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C., when Socrates was 47 and Plato a child of six. He concluded that between 423 and about 400 B.C., when Plato knew him, Socrates changed, and that young Plato, who had a high contempt for the rabble, chose to overlook 70-year-old Socrates' past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Socrates Socked | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Saturday is the night of nights along the Harvard athletic horizon, and few of the Crimson teams have been able to overlook this fact as they speeded practice preparations during the week for the impending clashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Face Strong Athletes Tomorrow Night | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Note: Harvard's proposed marriage course, which was widely petitioned for recently, must still be termed strictly tentative. Nevertheless, Harvard can ill afford to overlook the opportunities presented by domestically inclined North Carolinians, especially when the prospectus for the Conference proclaims: "The program of this conference, as was true of those preceding, is made up of co-laborers in the field of marriage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...intervention as a "transparent, disingenuous comedy," and terms it merely the first step in the cumulative, knavery which led to Berchtesgaden; the war scare, he says, was merely a cruel theatrical joke played on the masses of people, straining their nerves to the cracking point until they would overlook Czechoslovakia's betrayal in their gratitude for the avoidance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

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