Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several regular features carried in the Alumni Bulletin today, by far the most popular is the alumni notes. These items, which record marriages, promotions, or births pertaining to the members of each graduated class, are avidly read by alumni, according to editor Hall, because "everyone likes gossip." One cannot mention the Bulletin's alumni notes, however, without mentioning Jane E. Howard. Miss Howard, former secretary and now assistant to the magazine's editor, has painstakingly complied and checked the notes for 32 years. She is known, semi-officially, as "the lady without whom the Alumni Notes would appear under...
...James Joyce what dozens of novelists have been to Hemingway and Proust-an eager copycat who asserts his right to look at his king, even if it leaves him crosseyed. Joyce showed how multiple ideas and emotions get tangled together in the human mind, and how the mention of one thing suggests other quite different things which happen to be "associated," through the sound and look of words...
Professor Ian G. Barbour writes about the group in the Christian Century, "Is the University today really neutral, or open it tend to have an implied Weltan schauung? Why is it that the mention of a Christian view is often criticized whereas a logical positivist may be dogmatic and even militant in the expression of his faith? Partly because many teachers may not realize that they have presuppositions. . . Should we not encourage rather than discourage the discussion of convictions on the ultimate issues involved...
...seniority the National League deserves first mention, but the Yankees' record for the past five years gives the junior circuit precedence. The Bronx Bombers have seemingly taken out a long-term lease on the American League, and despite a lot of gripes from the tenants downstairs they aren't going to give it up for a while, at least not this year...
While the Spanish press made little mention of the fact, not all the Semiramis' passengers were Blue Division P.W.s. With them were four bitter young men with pinched faces and premature wrinkles who had been sent to Russia by the Republican government in the 19305 during the civil war.* Still missing and unaccounted for by the Soviet government: 5,247 others who went away at the same time, have never been heard from since...