Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case. He wrote to the President: the bill was "not corrective"; it would "encourage and increase labor disputes"; it was "exclusively and aggressively anti-labor . . . sinister . . . dangerous" not only to labor but to the U.S. public. But in all his 8,000 words Phil Murray made no mention of the abuses of labor's power which the bill sought to correct...
...ever I should have a biographer," he said later, "he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed." But he never said exactly what, except for his reading & writing, went on there, and no one else seems to know in detail. It is certain that he was disappointed when editors and publishers showed little interest in his work, but even disappointed authors do not usually bury themselves for years to pore over colonial history and consider the effects...
...article on John L. Lewis was a flagrant case in point: "Paunchy Mr. Lewis is haunted by fat stomachs," but you fail to mention the equally important point that Mine Operator O'Neill is not haunted by them. And Harlan County, Kentucky is tacitly ignored...
...Gardiner of Groton School has been awarded the $100 George Emerson Lowell Classics Prize for his proficiency in the combination Greek and Latin languages examination, it was announced yesterday. The winner of the $100 presented for ability in the Latin test alone is Richard A. Webster of Loomis. Honorable mention went to Geoffrey Bush, of Phillips Academy, Andover, and Stephen B. Baxter, of St. Paul's School, for the joint competition, and to George J. Kandzie, of Hingham High School, and William Gifford, of Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, for the single examination award...
...nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this Sunday's national elections...