Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made intercollegiate sport into spectacle, have caused it to be conducted, as Mr. Lowell points out, not for the benefit of the students, but to furnish entertainment to the alumni and the public. Here Mr. Lowell has not carried out his ideas to their logical conclusion. He makes no mention, for instance, of an athletic endowment which would eliminate the pressing need for the football spectacle to pay for the general physical development of the undergraduate body. His one point, that in order to reduce the excessive prominence of games preceding the annual Yale encounter, Harvard has made...
Along about now, we have heard, there come the mid-year examinations. Every columnist and editorial writer is expected to mention these. Well, we have. . . . So there...
Honorable mention was given to C. M. Herrick 3S.L.A. of Columbus, Ohio, and M. S. Sayer 2S.L.A. of Tiffin, Ohio...
...TIME, Sept. 13, you mention that an American destroyer, the Elvano, was fired on while steaming up the Yangtze. You probably refer to the small gunboat U. S. S. Elcano which is stationed at Ichang. It is easy to believe that she was fired on, but much harder to conceive her steaming up the Yangtze...
...seemed serene. Premier Ahmed Zogu of Albania transmitted official thanks for the Italian Red Cross aid. Then suddenly the press of Vienna and Belgrade blazed with ugly charges: 1) that the Albanian "earthquake" had not been recorded on the seismographs at Vienna and Belgrade; 2) that the only mention of the quake had been in Italian not Albanian papers; 3) that the "Red Cross" detachment was actually a group of Italian military strategists smuggled in to prepare a coup which would make Ahmed Zogu King of Albania and pave the way for an Italian attack on Jugoslavia through Albania...