Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound Davis, probably the steadiest man in the line all season, won an honorable mention for All-American in 1944 but was in Japan as an ensign for the 1945 campaign. Last fall he played more minutes than any other man on the Crimson squad. He played two years of high school football for Poly Prep in Brooklyn before coming to Cambridge with the Navy V-12 unit. He was mentioned on several all-city teams during his high school gridiron career...
Seven other players received honorable mention, with points being awarded on the basis of two for a position on the first team and one for a second team nomination...
Thanks for that nice article on Mr. Gunning, and his fight against unreadable English. . . . Modestly, the article does not mention the readability of your own style. Let me fill that gap. By my formula, TIME is more readable than almost any other printed source of news. For this, I herewith present you a "Readability Oscar"-and almost forgive you all the things you do to the English language...
...from his neglected yellow robes to the fifteenth century hair style he had summoned for the occasion. H. M. Temple set the pace for the rest of the cast with a superbly stylish performance as de Baudricourt in the opening scene, and William A. West and Joe Everingham deserve mention for their smooth renditions of the parts of Warwick and Dunois...
Although President Truman in his speech to the Congress last Wednesday failed to mention the Soviet Union by name, subsequent newspaper and Congressional comment has made explicit what was merely implicit in the lines of his address: the President was not asking the Congress to vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...