Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original letter, I did not mention by name either the course, or the instructors involved. This was later obligingly furnished for tout le monde by another well meaning scribe, and my anonymous friend supplements the information, with the result of holding me up to the ill will of the professors involved. This again is a first rate example of the honorable tactics of many holy...
...Things Come In Time. . . ." There was a time when time and again one would peruse one's TIME, there fail to notice mention of "little St. Mary's (of California)"College Football Team, the "Galloping Gaels," in TIME'S sports news. Example: (failure to mention) St. Mary's, 13 v. the mighty University of Southern California, 6, at Los Angeles Olympic Stadium, last Sept. 26. But now the time has arrived, when TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine, sits up and takes a notice of the efforts of these "Gaels" as in the TIME issue...
...attracted passing attention at the Chicago Art Institute was Stanislaw Szukalski. a passionate Pole who had one well executed statue on view. Several years ago he exhibited a piece upon which the jury smiled. He arrived at the exhibition hall next morning, found a little gilt card marked HONORABLE MENTION pinned to his statue. Sculptor Szukalski tore the card in shreds, flung the pieces in the face of a startled watchman and shouted, "You can't honor me!" Last week nobody tried...
...Actors Tone and Barker were then seen and heard. What they said was clearly audible but their faces flickered vaguely on the screen; it was hard to tell which was which and what they were doing. Later, a Central American parrot was somewhat more successfully televised, screeching hoarsely at mention of Prohibition. Theatre-owner B. B. Moss made a speech explaining that the purpose of the performance was "to show the progress in television rather than the finished article." Observers wondered whether television's progress, as shown, was not such as to make its often heralded arrival seem more...
...issue of the University Directory, though useful in geographical information, still remains rather incomplete. While all names and addresses of men connected with the University are published, no mention is made of telephone numbers. This lack of information causes much inconvenience, not only to the students, but to visitors to Harvard...