Word: convey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel. Such a situation has comparatively fresh dramatic potentialities, but the story is archaic and the fact that all dealings with the unseen men characters have to be carried on offstage strips the play of vigor. The main events are thus approached obliquely. When Miss Claiborne Foster wishes to convey the idea that her rich lover has deserted her, that her employer-the proprietor of the drugstore in which she works-has consented to marry her though she is pregnant, the action must be signified by speeches to her fellow-guests in the waiting room of the hostelry...
...intolerable. A five minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that...
...picture which shows her holding the basketed bottle in a setting which offers the observer no suggestion of a ship or any connection with the object for which the bottle was used. Basketing is commonly used on liquor bottles. The picture and especially your caption are manifesty intended to convey the impression that Mrs. Hoover is getting a thrill out of holding a bottle of liquor in her hand. Which puts her in a doubly embarrassing light, being the woman she is and occupying, as your own caption indicates, the position of -'first lady" in a land where prohibition...
...Europe's greatest statesmen thus flatly contradicted each other. Usually correspondents are blamed for such "mistakes," but last week the two Foreign Ministers seemed content to let their statements stand. With his usual adroitness, however, M. Briand managed to convey the impression that perhaps the real contradicter is neither himself nor Signor Grandi but a third party too potent to mention...
...have to congratulate you most heartily on the thorough grasp and clear understanding you manifest of the true spirit, morals and significance of our movement, as also on the coining, as only an American can, of the very happy and expressive term ''Recpolism'' to convey in a word to your readers a comprehensive idea of the movement. As an Indian I beg to express my gratitude to you, sir, for this enlightening article which is so different to the unconscious or deliberate misrepresentation of facts or the stupid jibes or fun-poking that I have seen...