Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Dickey was at an unmapped place on the Orinoco called Tama Tama. Like all enterprising explorers he had made a reportorial connection with the New York Times. To that paper he wirelessed first news of his discovery. Included in the despatch was mention of a 40-ft. waterfall over which his disabled outboard-motored canoe almost drifted and which he has "named, for a salient figure in the newspaper and exploration world, Russell Owen Cascade...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...
...last week the new laws had made little mention of divorce. Formerly husbands could declare themselves divorced, as did famed Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, and marry again without much trouble; dissatisfied wives had to bear their lot. The December enactments of the Yueh Fa gave wives the right to instigate proceedings, but did not specify the proceedings. Last week Dr. Wang's theories on divorce became Chinese statutes...
Every small-town paper (not to mention metropolitan dailies) runs a column of personal items, a bald list of local names and picayune events that mean nothing to the outside reader, may mean a lot to knowing fellow-townspeople. Author DeLamater takes a typical column from the "Steepleton Weekly News," makes each item the text for a chapter about the people concerned. By the time she has finished the column she has expanded it into a novel...
...Idaho. One of Grant's most trusted generals in the Civil War was an Indian "buck.'' Indians saved the Plymouth and Virginia Colo nies from starvation. Indians developed the useful plants-corn, tobacco, potatoes, rubber, chocolate, the best commercial varieties of beans and cotton, to mention only a few-that comprise five-eighths of the agricultural wealth of the world today...