Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Baring went to Eton and is still very proud of it. He seems to be unashamed of having been an undergraduate at "both Universities" (Oxford & Cambridge), a feat few Englishmen would care to mention. He tried Oxford first, "was ploughed" (flunked out) when he translated socordiam eorum inridere licet ?"It is licentious to laugh at a sister of mercy"?put his answers in the Divinity paper into such rhymes...
...believe this is a ridiculous statement on your part and very unfair to the Democratic candidate. If this statement is true, kindly mention the names of those offering such generous odds...
...earn this week the thanks of both Wets and Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand...
...present value of the national wealth is $329,700,000,000. The present value, on a 3½% interest basis, of the payments totalling $22,230,000,000 which we are scheduled to receive is $7,500,000,000, approximately one-third of the figure which you mention. So you see that cancellation of the entire Allied War Debt instead of being 70?' out of every $100 of national wealth is only 20?' out of every $100 of national wealth. From this one may conclude that the sum total of the War Debts is such a trifling item...
...Britain, Heinrich Brüining is probably the shrewdest politician in his country. Newspapers were quick to point out the similarity between his position and that of Britain's tricky Welshman from 1929, when Labor came to power, until the Conservative landslide of last year. They did not mention that for all the fame of his Balance of Power, Lloyd George was never able to do much with...