Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seniors last year at 56 small colleges, Marlboro came out with the highest overall record, putting it on a par with or higher than the national average of all colleges, whether accredited or not. Armed with these results, Boyden says he has little trouble persuading most graduate schools to overlook Marlboro's unaccredited status...
...many physicians," says Dr. Riggins, "overlook the fact that almost as many new TB cases (about 100,000 a year) are now being reported as before the wonder-drug age. To hasten the elimination of tuberculosis, we need to vaccinate infants, children and certain young adults in areas of high incidence as well as those individuals who are unavoidably exposed [i.e., doctors and nurses...
...good New England grace, allowed the Eisenhowers the privacy they had come for. On Coasters Harbor Island they settled down in the naval base's commanding officer's refurbished Quarters A, a 67-year-old, 2½-story, white brick colonial-style house whose second-floor windows overlook Narragansett Bay. The President established a routine divided between play and work in his temporary office in the base communications building 100 ft. from Quarters A. Across the bay at the venerable (67 years old) Newport Country Club he played golf, doffed his cap one day to the gallery...
Cubs' Corral. In all but a distinguished handful of papers, daily business sections consist of a raft of market statistics adrift on a pallid sea of wire-service snippets and puffs for advertisers (also known as BOMs or Business Office Musts). In business coverage, editors even overlook readily apparent local trends that often build into stories of national importance. Example: Los Angeles is one of the nation's biggest electronics centers, but most hard news of the industry comes to Los Angeles dailies from wire services and national publications...
...coeducationalists" overlook the Harvard alumnus who may want to contribute his millions to a "man's" college and the Radcliffe administrator who may want to keep his job. But they point to the success of coeducation in the Harvard professional schools and suggest that greater efficiency could be achieved by eliminating the present duplication in endowment funds and administrative machinery...