Word: convey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please try to convey my appreciation to all hands of TIME for this thoughtful development...
...endurance and recovery, the Russians have two factors to thank. Mainly, they can thank themselves and a national effort singly devoted to manning, equipping and re-equipping their successive armies. To a lesser but great extent, they can also thank U.S. and British aid. Published figures by no means convey the full effect of the planes, tanks, other weapons and materials delivered to the Red Army. Many, and in some sectors most, of the bombers harrying airdromes, railway junctions and supply centers are U.S. bombers, with Russian crews...
Radio has in general tried to follow printed journalism's tradition of a free press. But there has been constant trouble. Commentators can and often do convey their own feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...
...writer, there is something mighty inspiring in the knowledge that the Commander came out of retirement at the beginning of the war, to again serve his country as our Officer in Charge. It is the students' hope and prayer that he will have smooth sailing (as a Convey Commander), for as one of the fellows remarked, "Gee, I hope when my assignment comes through, I'll have a skipper like Commander MacGowan...
...Comic-strip artists use word distortions for definite purposes - for humor, to indicate common slurrings, to convey the sound of a dialect. Examples (from Smilin' Jack and Popeye): a-gettin' , ah'm, aihport, fergit, yam (for am), ast, certingly, goner (for going...