Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonio, Tex. Youngest of eleven children in the famed family that gave its name to the language as a synonym for all unbranded cattle, he still walks with a cane as the result of his War wounds and flares up, with an eye on the camera, at one mention of the hated name...
...conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they had in effect told Chamberlain that he could go to the devil, were actually intimidated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the point of pleading with France not so much as to mention Germany by name but merely to fulminate at Geneva against treaty-breaking in general...
While I wish to thank the CRIMSON for their very kind remarks about the Student Conference on Careers in Government in yesterday's editorial, it would be unfair not to mention the two "aides" who were most responsible for the "clockwork" which you praised. The conference would not have been so successful without the constant and persistent work of Bruce Bliven, Jr., and Ely. J. Kahn, Jr., who devoted two entire days to making arrangements, taking registration, and, on Saturday, keeping just one jump ahead of the conference. It is to them that most praise is due. Raymond Dennett...
...Babylonian conquest in 606 B. C. (TIME, March 25). Last week Sir Charles, just turning 68, was in Manhattan for his third marriage (see p. 70). He told reporters he was a little irked by news of the Wellcome expedition which he had not authorized and which did not mention his name or his book, New Bible Evidence...
However, any plan which arbitrarily selects one group of high schools is bound to incur the hostility of other high schools, not to mention the numerous private schools which yearly send large deputations to Harvard. The group so favored was entitled the privilege ostensibly because of the work it has done in the field of progressive education; but the problem raised by its selection over others will require delicate handling...