Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came up to London from, Sandringham the day after my father's death [Jan. 20, 1936] to convey the express desire of my mother that the funeral should take place on Jan. 28. She was most anxious to avoid a long and painful delay, like that of two weeks which elapsed between the death and burial of my grandfather, King Edward...
Your story of the Hindenburg disaster, I believe, is the finest piece of work that has been done by your staff since the inception of the magazine. Will you please convey our congratulations to your staff members who did the rewrite on this horrible catastrophe...
...appointment of Professor John H. Williams as head of the Littauer School comes as welcome news to the undergraduate body, and particularly to the many students who have studied under his direction. Not only an able teacher in the highest sense that the term can convey, but also the holder of an important position in the Federal Reserve System, Professor Williams brings the new graduate school a wealth of experience which fits him peculiarly well for his task...
...week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the front pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham station was a regular bus whose route missed the university by half a mile. Some 25 scientists, including General Electric Co.'s Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir, heedlessly climbed aboard this...
...rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling for her unfortunate examples...