Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever-increasing public interest in water as a recreational facility, it is most appropriate. However, in view of this great interest in sailing craft, I wish to point out an omission in your story that would lead many people to considerable trouble, grief and expense. I refer to your mention of the trim-tab on Intrepid's keel. I am the holder of U.S. and Canadian patents which cover this particular feature of a keel flap and a separate rudder. For the purposes of the 12-meter boats involved in this year's series, no restrictions were placed...
...only problem the project leaders encountered with the technique was the reaction of fretful parents. Some objected to the "antiwar tone" and "unpatriotism" of Hiroshima, the mention of menstruation in The Diary of a Young Girl. But such niceties failed to bother the kids. More important to them was the discovery that a good book can be fascinating-even if it is educational...
...guaranteeing jury trials, the U.S. Constitution made no mention of how many persons are required to make one up. The use of twelve men traces back to English common law. Louisiana is by no means the only state that sometimes permits juries of fewer than twelve...
Though the Normans were experts at "piracy, perjury, robbery, rape, blackmail and murder," as Norwich puts it, they were also uncommonly gentle conquerors. In all of their exploits, they proved less interested in imposing their own customs on their captives than in adopting the ways-not to mention the possessions-of those they had subdued. Little more than a century's residence in France sufficed to erase the maritime traditions of what was once a seagoing Viking people. In Norman Sicily, says Norwich, the victors "created a climate of enlightened political and religious thinking in which all races, creeds...
When the City Council convened Monday after about a month's recess, everyone expected a hot debate to develop on the new Harvard Square traffic plan. But oddly enough, there was not even a mention...