Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article "The Wild Flowers of Thought" [March 14], you mention a Russian proverb that according to you runs like this: "With seven nurses, the child goes blind." Obviously you had in mind the following Russian proverb...
Hundreds of Quickwits are responding with a cynicism beyond their years. The game, of course, has rules. This year's rage is backyard rocket building, but only fools mention the rockets that blew up, assuming they ever got built. Another gaffe is to boast of having organized a local chapter of the International Flat Earth Society. Stanford rejected one such pre-Columbian after having second thoughts about his intellect. On the other hand, the Stanford authorities suggested the right tone to take when they beamed at a budding scholar who claimed that he had collected and counted...
...into a good college" because of the salesmanship involved. Whether or not a lottery makes sense, there is a way to rise above the college race. For those with steady nerves, the solution is to do something spectacular-scale Mount McKinley in a wheelchair, perhaps-and then refuse to mention it to the colleges...
...four Ivy Leaguers were on the first team of the Ally-Ivy selections chosen by the eight coaches two weeks ago. Morgan and Winn were picked for the second team, but Princeton, Penn, and Columbia supplied the first team. Gallagher and the Crimson's Dale Dover were given honorable mention for appearing on at least two ballots, but Moger collected one vote at most and failed to place...
Dover's exclusion for the AP New England honorable mention came as a surprise to some of the followers of area basketball...