Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize is given for the best collateral essay written in connection with the History 1 course. Sue Smart '52 received honorable mention...
Weinbaum began manufacturing his stories during the early '30s. He populated Mars with clever, ostrichlike creatures who could learn snatches of human speech. On Jupiter's moon, lo, he placed giggling "loonies," dimwits with balloon-shaped heads and five-foot necks-not to mention six-inch "slinkers," nasty pests that looked like black rats wearing capes. Science fictioneers credit Weinbaum with two important contributions to their field. Where predecessors had concentrated on gadgetry and ordinary men, he tried to create characters for his non-human aliens, tried to weave his doughpots and other planetary faunas into his plots...
...some time the O.S.U. Students for Wallace had been attempting to have the speaker ban lifted. On May 10 they scheduled a regular business meeting to be held on the campus. They were given permission by the administration to hold the meeting. There was no mention made by the Wallace group of the possibility of a speaker attending...
Other graduate winners were Richard G. Stern 1G, Cecil Y. Lang 3G, and Robert F. Hoopes 4G, all honorable mention...
...might be appropriate to mention here a few of Yale's recent times and distances that the Crimson can only gape at. In the Heps, Fuchs put the shot 55 feet, 3/4 inches, Wade ran the mile in 4:18.7, Appel pole vaulted 13 feet, 5 inches, and the mile relay team finished...