Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made no dent in his 39 opponents' convictions. Two days had they argued that Army & Navy heads are not infallible, that Allies should bear their share of the war burden, that 18-and 19-year-old men are too young for bloody combat. Nobody thought to mention that most teen-agers were raring...
...history of the Parsimonious Freshman's year is Too Lugubrious to mention. Suffice it to say that by the end of the year the Light began to Dawn upon him. Clutching his pencil and paper he began to calculate the profits and losses of his False Economy, and discovered the following...
...Vast Intellectual Losses which followed his failure to read the Crimson's editorials, play reviews and literary comment, Modesty forbids us to make Mention here, but they were Not Inconsiderable...
...made a 24-day tour of important war plants as the guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Accompanied by one Navy and six Army censors, the correspondents were forbidden to publish production figures that frequently appeared, fully covered, in local papers. At one plant they could not even mention the product manufactured, while it was being currently featured in a full-page magazine advertisement. Equally ridiculous was exaggerated secrecy over the President's recent tour. Delayed reports on the progress of the tour would have both insured his personal safety and at the same time informed a public that...
...small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests for information and duplicating queries from decentralized regional offices...