Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulders (literally and figuratively) above the other candidates. You have got to ask us something harder than to pick the best left tackle that has trod the Stadium sod this fall because Buzz Harvey wins without much competition. Hutchison of the Army and Kilcullen of Yale get honorable mention in this class and it looks like Hutchison for the second team...
...went the speech-while outside the long lines of police, hands joined, resisted and almost sank beneath wave on wave of mob. The priest promised a (roughly) 60? dollar, praised the President for having the "intestinal fortitude" to fight Morgan. At a mention of Al Smith (see above) the crowd jeered, booed...
...spot : the death of Pope Alexander VI, whose corrupt old Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent...
...forgot to mention last time the amazing adventures of Dean Hanford as Fire-Chief. The Dean was walking along Massachusetts Avenue several days ago, when he was stopped in his tracks by the sight of an automobile in flames, in front of Leavitt and Peirce's, with a panicky woman-driver attendant. After watching the merry flames a while the Dean rushed into the Smoke Shop, and dashed out "in all directions," as Leacock puts it, with a fire extinguisher. After the Dean had doused all the innocent bystanders with his chemical contraption, some fine fellow came along and saved...
...view of the really excellent facilities for projection available at the Geography Building, the problem of sponsorship and expense, already happily solved in the case of the French films offered periodically, should present no insurmountable barrier to this project. The educational advantages to be gained are too obvious for mention. But whether regarded from the purely cultural standpoint or looked upon merely as an opportunity for the undergraduate scholar to see and hear a difficult foreign tongue as spoken in its native habitat, the introduction of a series of well selected German films would serve a definite purpose in Cambridge...