Word: forgottenness
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...least one of the valuable arts learned in the late war, that of hiding military equipment under a pleasing mantle of twigs and greenery, seems not to have been forgotten. It may be only a coincidence that at the same time that the name of the fiery old Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is mentioned for chancellorship by the German Nationalist Party, news of a peculiarly pacific character is circulated on the doings of the erstwhile Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the figure-head of the Monarchists, who is said to have enrolled for a series of agricultural lectures at Breslau University...
...seems to have been generally forgotten that our new Attorney-General of the United Sates, Harlan F. Stone, served during the war on the Board of Inquiry that appraised the sincerity of conscientious objectors. The following description of Attorney-General Stone by one of the men he examined is quoted in "The Conscientious Objector in America" by Norman Thomas (Huebsch...
...University track coaches and track men have not by any means given up either meet as a foregone conclusion. There is a remarkable spirit of enthusiasm and determination being shown at the Stadium each day in track practice. Harvard track men have not forgotten by any means the inspiring story of Coach Bingham's last track team, which entered the Yale meet in 1922 foredoomed to complete defeat, and then, in a meet where nearly every man outdid his best previous performance, turned that defeat into the first Harvard victory since 1915, with a final score...
...Parisian Exhibition. F. A. Bridgman, dean of American artists in France, found his canvases hung in a corner so dark as almost to be indiscernible. Another American exhibitor removed all his items. Mario de Goyon, French artist, found one of his pictures lying in a corner, entirely forgotten...
...obvious that more regulation by the government has been made necessary by the flagrant abuses which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that the private entrepreneur bitterly pressed by keen business rivals will always act for the eventual good of the public...