Word: forgottenness
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...will the importance of being earnest be forgotten by those who stay behind. A student college-camp has already opened in the Catskills for the summer, a camp of "doers" who are resolved to depend upon no external stimulus for their vigorous thought but to lecture to each other on "problems of the day" that they are severally exercised about...
...profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden of England (1818), edited now with reference to the most modern scientific research and with an aim forgotten since Marsden's time, in a welter of notes, namely, to make the Polos' travels readable primarily as rare narrative...
...viewpoint. Final examinations are upon us; a day and a night spent in hurried review of a course, remembering dates and names, movements, policies, statesmanship; hurried jottings of calculations, of supposedly important facts (if we know or have an idea of what the instructor likes): charred table-edges from forgotten cigarettes, a blue haze of tobacco smoke, heeled butts crowding the corners. Visions of the instructor who faithfully peruses his text in order that he may find catch questions (we imagine) and matters of no import, so that he may smile lightly when he sees the surprised visages...
TIME made no effort to list all senior honor societies in U. S. colleges, has not "forgotten" Rutgers College ,nor any other...
...forgotten when the polls opened; then even the blind could read. By the time returns from half the state were in Mr. Brookhart was leading by 20,000 votes...