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Word: mention (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still in the dugout at week's end was such costly talent as ailing Clouter Charlie Keller, Pitcher Bob Porterfield and Second Baseman Snuffy Stirnweiss, not to mention DiMag himself. Watching their understudies paste the ball lopsided, some Yankee veterans seemed almost resigned to bench-warming. To cap it all, the Yanks were getting fine pitching: Vic Raschi and Ed Lopat had won three each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Head Start | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...best hopes for a new labor bill now rest with the Congressional committees which must frame new bills: The Democratic majorities have one more chance to compromise intelligently. If the Taft-Hartley Law remains in effect, many small inequities will continue--not to mention big ones like the closed shop ban. The National Labor Relations Board will have to continue operating under a law parts of which both labor and management have attacked violently; it will be forced to go on throwing out the cases of unions whose officers object to non-communist affidavits or the required finance reports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knock on Wood | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...solemn and forbidding. Class Day is the seniors' own personal farewell to the College; historically, it has been the one activity in the last week where the tune hasn't been called by a conservative Administration. Consequently, Class Day has usually had a quality of strenuous abandon, not to mention drunkenness and obscenity, and more than once, shocked officials have been forced to clamp down the lid in order to preserve the good name of the College...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Gaudy Class Day Rolls On ... | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

Theodore Woodland Wells '48 of Melrose received honorable mention for a Latin translation of a passage from the same work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Bowdoin Prize Winners Named | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...When the latter occurs, he claims, it establishes "the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well as for the individual organism." As an example, he cites the replacement of absolute monarchy in certain countries by constitutional monarchy. But he significantly fails to mention any example of "dying to self" on the part of a great nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Niebuhr on History | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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