Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After two hours of merry conversation, Willie was dismissed. He turned to the committee cordially: "Don't forget my home in Deal if you are down the shore. You are invited." As a last thought, Senator Kefauver asked if Willie had any inside tips on horses. Willie smiled expansively on the committee: "I have a great following," he said. "Follow me and see what...
...that her father's nurse, thinking she was giving a normal dose, would inject it and kill him. Was Dr. Morgan in favor of euthanasia? Said the syndicate: the strip did plan to present the pros & cons of euthanasia. But the syndicate added comfortingly: Dr. Morgan would not forget his Hippocratic Oath...
...certain of the year's festive seasons, you find yourself wishing you were a kid again, forget it. You're probably not smart enough. Qualifications for membership in the ranks of the under-12-year-olds, in whose honor the larger emporiums are currently running pandemoniums called toy departments, are high; and aspirants had better have a good understanding of pantographs, sismographs, spinthariscopes, the electrolysis of nickel compounds, the 12-tone scale, and most of the wizardry of modern electronics--to mention only a few points. This is all sine qua non equipment and enables you to perform the elementary...
...history the two groups were even. In all tests, score differences were so small that McGill could only draw one conclusion: in the social sciences, at least, high-school homework neither helps nor hinders very much, merely takes up time. McGill's advice to his colleagues on homework: forget...
Building Up Your Congregation warns its readers of "the dangerous dignity of church boards." The board members of churches, he says, "seem to forget that according to the New Testament, thousands of followers were attracted to Christ by what would today be considered undignified miracles-undignified acts of healing. Can you imagine the average church board being asked to approve such miracles as the turning of water into wine, or feeding the multitude on two fishes and five loaves of bread?" One of the chief weaknesses of church boards, according to Adman Pleuthner, is that they have too many bankers...