Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eric Cutler '40, captain-elect of the Harvard swimming team, received honorable mention as a distance swimmer on the All-America team recently by the Amateur Athletic Union...
...miser who is inordinately stingy with elephants for State durbars and who rides around in an old touring car while other less prosperous maharajas sport dozens of custom-built limousines. Thus he has amassed a fortune which includes treasure houses filled with gold, jewels, ivory carvings, antiques, not to mention a railroad or so, a few mines, stocks & bonds. He has often been called the world's richest...
...blond, hardworking Chicagoan. Whether he will rank as a major U. S. artist 20 years from now is anybody's guess. Undoubtedly his brush points in that direction. At 31, he has won two Guggenheim fellowships and eight art prizes. Thanks to the latest, a $200 honorable mention at the Carnegie International (TIME, Oct. 30), he went by day coach to Manhattan last week, saw a one-man show of his open at the Associated American Artists' Galleries...
...other hand, the Committee of Eight envisaged a considerable expansion in the ranks of associate professors. While there was no mention of the matter, this suggestion carried with it the inescapable implicit assumption that many of the increased number of associate professors could never be advanced--that they would have to be appointed without predictable vacancies ahead of them. In view of this, President Conant could easily have appointed the men in question to permanent positions, after having made a few simple salary adjustments. The Committee, in recommending no hasty action, may well have intended this...
Last week Canadian isobars* also disappeared from U. S. weather maps. Although the attitude of Canadian weathermen towards their U. S. collaborators continued warm, their forecastings were cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure. Chief U. S. Weatherman Francis Wilton Reichelderfer was nothing daunted. Said he, U. S. meteorologists have developed such a weather-eye technique that lack of Canadian reports will not seriously affect U. S. forecasts. Most U. S. weather is brewed in the Gulf of Mexico, or somewhere on the vast North American hinterland south of Alaska, and most U. S. storms move from west to east...