Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he returned from seven years in the service of his country overseas. There was no mention of the fact in Detroit, in Kansas City, in Omaha, in New Orleans-no mention even in Philadelphia, a bare 100 miles from Manhattan's midriff, where he disembarked. He is not, like Andrew Mellon or Rodolfo Valentino, a newspaper character...
...have been deaf to the call of public service?the fact was simply that General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, announced a new list of 24 Prohibition Administratoras and not one was $50,000 a year man, not to mention any higher figure. The public had almost been led to believe that a great drive under General Andrews beginning Sept. 1 to blot intoxicants from off the map of the U. S. was to be offered by business men, six-figure men. In this detail, at least, the drive...
...world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...
What Government official would not tremble at the mention of its name? The name of the Senate Committee on Public Lands. . . . Simple and austere and little changed, still stands its roster...
...fair to the Evolutionists whom Mr. Bryan attacked to mention that they do not define or describe Evolution as Mr. Bryan did. They regard it as an historical truth, no more and no less demonstrable by experiment than any other historical fact-such as, for example, that Washington crossed the Delaware. Mr. Bryan persisted in identifying Evolution with the theories (such as natural selection) which are advanced to account for it. Looking on the geological record, Evolutionists feel as an historian might who looked upon a series of photographs taken at every city and town between Manhattan and San Francisco...