Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great stress upon such striking items as the sparks struck out by Paul Revere's horse or the Bunker Hill order about not firing until the whites of the enemy's eyes were visible. Financial affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed, but still there is usually some mention of Robert Morris, who is described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing to its connection with an even more neglected Revolutionary figure...
...force of the movement is the announcement by the Columbia Phonograph Co. of prizes for the best composition completing Schubert's unfinished Symphony No. 8, in B Minor. The awards will be apportioned as follows: One first prize ($750), one second prize ($250) and a third prize (honorable mention) to be awarded to winners in each of the following ten zones-U. S.; Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania; Denmark, Sweden, Norway; France, Belgium, Switzerland; Germany, Holland; Great Britain; Italy; Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded...
...pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only at the time of bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would...
Sirs: Your column of course always gets special attention by us in the business of education. The article on "Kudos in last issue [TIME, June 27] made us wish for a mention for we give honorary degrees also...
Sirs: I wish to call to your attention a couple things you omitted in TIME, July 4. Under new presidents you mentioned our neighboring institution, Oberlin, but over looked the fact that Denison also has a new president, Dr. Avery A. Shaw. Also, under "Kudos" "honorary degrees" [TIME, June 27] you neglected to mention that Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a colored institution, had given our Honor able Mayor, William Hale Thompson, an honorary degree, by proxy. THOMAS N. PARKS Denison '28 Granville, Ohio...