Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your account (TIME, Nov. 26) of the award to Dr. Urey of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry you mention "a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building" (of Columbia University). Are you sure it was a woodcock? That bird has some amazing traits, but the craziest among them would not, I believe, have been seen (much less captured) in such a foreign locality, even though the sill were old and wormy...
...Illustrated with new records, especially made by the Nashdom Abbey Singers, of music which, in some cases, has not been heard for close on 500 years," the lecture will take up the importance of the period 1440-1460 in English musical history, analyze its music, mention its composers, and discuss their problems...
...note with sorrow the CRIMSON's basicly shallow conception of conditions in the H.A.A. The sincere opinions voiced in your articles make no mention of the real weaknesses of Harvard's athletic administration. Football supports college athletics, but a coach is a coach, a business advisor, is a business advisor, and for the mutual benefit of both there must be separation of powers...
Into this compilation during the next six years Lexicographer Baten packed a definition and discussion of every one of the 15,000 words Shakespeare ever used. The word "love" which the Elizabethan found 2,559 occasions to mention took days and days of special work. Each locality mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poems was carefully described. A biography of each historical character was written and a sketch of the origins of each fictitious one. The Dukes of Bedford and Beaufort made particular trouble because Shakespeare referred to several without bothering to distinguish between them. Summarized were...
...broadcast, we must always bear in mind that broadcasting reaches persons of widely varying age levels and reaches them in family and social groups of almost every conceivable assortment. For this reason we do not believe that it is either wise or necessary to discuss, and sometimes even to mention, some things which may more properly be discussed in print, where each person may individually and privately concern himself with the subject...