Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opened the ceremony with becoming simplicity. In Moscow the Soviet Foreign Minister said flatly that he had demanded the return of the Turkish provinces, Kars and Ardahan, back at the Potsdam meeting of the Big Three. At the White House Mr. Truman said he didn't remember any mention of the subject. Then the high priest of diplomatic confusion took over...
Devil or Saint? No Argentine had been such an international figure as Perón. Few had so dominated the Argentine horizon. The Argentine Who's Who of 1943 did not mention him. Yet two years later his name had become one to conjure with...
...fact that only 0.58 children were born to the average member of the Class of 1931 within nine years of snagging the sheepskin, sees more young Kallikaks than Jawn Harvards being born and finds that the rate of self-elimination among Harvard alumni is accelerating. Dr. Gamble does not mention the size of his own family...
...Hollywood, an ordinarily shrewd prognosticator, will be surprised to get the facts tardily. Not only the inception of television film-producing units here, with their immense potentialities for factual and instructional production on film (much of which will become available for those 35,000 nontheatrical projectors which you mention), but the huge backlogs of orders on the books of the manufacturers of 16-millimeter projectors, indicate bigger and happier minnie-movie audiences in the home, church, club group, recreation hall and other 16-millimeter stands, not by any means overlooking the classroom...
George, who had been a lawyer in Okolona, Miss., landed in Washington in 1929, to handle the real-estate affairs of a Chicago banking firm. One day he laughingly suggested a personal publicity gag to Mississippi's amiable Senator Pat Harrison: "Why not mention my name where it will be heard, as a dark-horse candidate for a District of Columbia commissionership?" Pat did. Somewhat to his horror, the dark horse was chosen...