Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this country ever apologize to any nation before in the course of its history?" There have been numerous occasions when our government has been magnanimous enough to express regret over international unpleasantness. Reference to any secondary school textbook would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England in the "Trent Affair." Possibly these two secretaries of state could claim a 5? rating...
Astonished, TIME acknowledges receipt of dozens of variants of the above; also dozens of other birth-announcements which it does not reproduce because the point lies mainly in illustration or strange typography. Mention-worthy...
...think that the subject which you mention is of sufficient importance to warrant the expenditure of such energy as a public debate would require. Besides, I am very busily engaged with other projects. For these and other reasons I am afraid that I shall have to decline your invitation to debate...
...Radcliffe students to take part in the Harvard competition. Winners will be announced about April 1, together with the names of the members of the Department of Government who grade the papers. Last year's winner, H. G. Abdian '30, who is now in the Graduate School, received honorable mention in the intercollegiate competition,--a feat exceeded only by the Harvard entry in 1928, who won first prize in the intercollegiate contest
There are others too that one might mention, but further commentary is really unnecessary. Byrne is at his best only when his style can dominate the story, and when most of these sketches were written he had formed no definite style. The book is interesting because it shows the author at a certain stage of his development. The occasional flashes of brilliance are harbingers of what was to follow, but they are so occasional that they preclude any save the enjoyment of analysis...