Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...fact, this useless interregnum will be costly and dangerous whenever it occurs in troublous and critical times. In normal times we may overlook the waste it involves; but it becomes a matter of first rate moment in such times as this. We ought to take advantage of the present demonstration of its unpleasant possibilities to end it. Congress should submit an amendment to the states without unnecessary delay. Chicago Tribune
...Japan, have already signified their willingness to work towards disarmament if this country follows suit. Otherwise Congress is likely to agree with Senator Borah that the United States is tired of disarmament talk; it wants action and if economy comes with it, so much the better. We must not overlook the greatest possible chance to achieve practical disarmament
...matter of record that more men take tennis as a form of exercise to keep fit than any other sport in the University. The encouragement of a sport that men can keep up long after they leave college is something the University ought not to overlook. The indoor courts would solve this problem. PAUL JACKSON...
...Harvard's chances today. I recognize that Harvard has a better record for the season; that Harvard has shown a more consistent and better developed offense than Yale; that Yale displayed noticeable weaknesses against Princeton both in generalship, team play and individual performance. On the other hand I cannot overlook the fact that, in the Princeton game, Yale got a great deal of bad football out of her system and learned lessons which will not permit of the repetition of these errors in her final game of the season; that the individuals including substitutes who will face Harvard today...
Although most of the undergraduates are not as eager to violate these rules (especially the last) as the author of College Life would have us believe, they never take any of them seriously, and therefore overlook, the one which is really practical--namely, that about music and noise after ten o'clock. If anyone is moved by the impulse to sing, play the piano, or practice on the saxophone at eleven or twelve o'clock, does he think of the commandment posted in the corridor, or of his next-door neighbor? He does not. If he resides in the Freshman...