Word: forgottenness
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...good for the soul. Especially salubrious is the discipline following failure to comply. A man in good standing at the beginning of his third year might congratulate himself too enthusiastically. If he faces probation for other causes he vails his stomach--and his neighbors prosper. Nor can there be forgotten the opportunities for intercourse with the faculty gained by a student who takes examination after examination. The instructors are friendly, of course, the student eager for learning. Both appear to their best advantage, cordial, disinterested, and sharing an admiration for the language in question.--An admiration the student will carry...
...music of the spheres". And in a Greek rapture over this satisfactory conclusion to his speculations he might neglect to discuss the other possible sources of the "heavenly harmony". To some degree the radio novice in his delight over the successful operation of his "set" has likewise forgotten to interest himself in the problems of the origin of those invisible waves which he has set his wires to snare...
...Sermon had for its text the fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a poor man, a carpenter, who wore plain clothes, had poor friends, low social rating, belonged to no exclusive clubs. The argument was that the Protestant Churches, whether ritualistic or evangelical, had, to all appearances, forgotten, overlooked, or discarded this fact. Extracts...
...process of evolution the hermit Japanese of the early cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels...
...expensive Swiss hotels. 'May I suggest,' said I, 'that before asking American help, you invite these German profiteers to look after their own flesh and blood. ... Perhaps you are not aware what is being taught about the War to German children in Prussianized schools, but you can hardly have forgotten the recent act of the German Embassy in Washington...