Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your splendid article on penicillin you neglected to mention the grandmothers who used that remedy constantly in the early days...
What of Nov. 7? No mention was made of Britain's interests in Greece. Also unmentioned was another topic which may well have furnished conversational matter for Churchill and Stalin: suppose that Franklin Roosevelt L not reelected...
Trud did not mention oil, but another Soviet thunderer did. War and the Working Class informed Russians that the U.S. controls 57% of the world's oil resources, Britain 27%, the Soviet only...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...
...Roosevelt lightly passed over the sore old Democratic subject of poll taxes, with a brief mention that the polls should be open to all citizens-"without tax or artificial restriction." And, for the second time in a fortnight, he accused GOPsters of trying to make it hard for U.S. servicemen to vote: "There are politicians and others who quite openly worked to restrict the use of the ballot in this election, hoping selfishly for a small vote...