Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significance. "The object in writing this book was to show whence we came, whither we are drifting, and by what fairly simple means we can avoid dangerous rocks now threatening our course." The laity however will regret Mr. Warburg's decision to go the "extreme of foregoing to mention by name even onetime fellows-at-arms to whom I longed to pay a tribute. . . ." For, as everyone knows, names point and clarify information. While the elect may read between the lines, much of Mr. Warburg's book must remain obscure to the ordinarily intelligent citizen. Perhaps it remains...
...think that, to mention the words of the poet...
Might not this law entitle Texas, not only to mention in your honor list, but possibly to "first place...
Seasoned observers noted that whenever letters purporting to incriminate the Soviet Government turn up: 1) They are always awkwardly phrased and always mention comrades by either first or last name but never both; 2) If they incriminate only Russians, there is a hullabaloo which dies down indecisively without any adequate investigation; 3) If high officials in the country where the letters appear seem to be involved, thorough investigation results in the conclusion that they are forgeries. (Cases in point: 1) The Zinoviev letter, now generally considered a forgery; 2) The letters purporting to show that Senators Borah and Norris...
...remaining weeks for attending Pacific conferences and international conclaves has somewhere in him the wee small voice that tells a wanderer. Not enough for him to know the secret workings of diplomacy so intimately that crowned heads fear, learned heads respect, and student heads headache at the mention of his name, but he must also put into practise, a step anomalous for a professor, the facts that he has garnered. While in his all-too-short sojourn at Harvard history in the making lives as a naked muse before his classes. And so the Vagabond doffs an imaginary...