Word: mention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...areas, have set the precedent of claiming nationalities by the conquest of foreign regions and the subsequent creation of new minorities (for many parts of the Sudeten area include as many Czechoslovaks as Germans). What is more, Hitler, in his "glorious" liberation of the submerged Germans, by carefully avoiding mention of the seven hundred thousand Poles in German Silesia or the three hundred thousand Slavs in East Prussia, proves himself to be anything but a champion of submerged peoples. Likewise, in supporting the claims of Poland and Hungary who are demanding their share of territory, Hitler is overlooking the fact...
...more opponent deserves special mention, right end Sullivan. He saw some service against Harvard last year and has developed fast since. He rushes in the same knife-like fashion that Brud Holland showed last week, and he is an all-round fellow, because he does the punting when Wilson is not in the game...
...front of the book. The first is the diary of Lieut. John Montresor, a British officer, who scouted the course which Arnold's party took fourteen years later. It is accurate on the whole with regard to details of geography, except for the fateful omission of any mention of the huge swamps around Rush and Spider Lake. Arnold, using this diary as his guidebook, almost lost his entire army in the uncharted bogs...
...British dodge of calming the public by having newspapers mention that John Bull was paying more attention to cricket scores than to the crisis was considered not worth trying in London this week, but in Manhattan the Journal-American made a brave effort with "WAR IN EUROPE WOULD HIT 6-DAY BIKE RACE...
Last week the Philharmonic-Symphony directors announced the result of their second annual competition. Again the prize went to an Evanston musician: a strapping, blond-whiskered composer named David Van Vactor. A sole honor able mention in the same competition went to Composer Mark Wessel, onetime stu dent and teacher of composition at Evanston's Northwestern University...