Word: expresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are occasions when the writers for TIME rise to truly poetical expression. I recall such writing in the past when you described the U.S.A. in springtime or autumn, and now, in your issue of Nov. 28, again you express this lofty quality in stating what, in varying degrees of clarity, was the national thought this Thanksgiving...
Walter Hampden, as a monsignor who aids Miss George in her fight against the bishop, plays his entire role while seated. He can express himself only through his voice and facial expressions, and although he sometimes gives the impression of overacting, his sharp cynicism enriches the play with a subtle humor...
...best popular scientific literature is written by scientists who having a command of their subject to begin with, learn to express their thoughts in prose clear and simple enough that the average person can understand it; in short, they successfully "write down" to their reader. Possibly the worst science writing is the reverse of this process; a journalists or some other unqualified commentator "writes up" to a subject, trying to explain to the reader something that he himself only vaguely understands. In "Cancer", Bewa Doherty attempts just such a feat and fails rather miserably...
...group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to make him take off his British uniform. Last week Noel saw his chance. With the help of a sympathetic German fellow prisoner, he bought a ticket to Berlin, boarded a fast express at Leuna after the Russians had made their routine inspection and rode uninterrupted into Germany's British zone. His superiors accepted his tale and sent him to a hospital to fatten up. "I've been thinking about that girl," mused Private Moncaster bitterly last week. "Why didn...
...Allow me to express my astonishment at seeing in theaters and other places marble tablets and bronze plates immortalizing Finnish soldiers and officers fallen in wars against Soviet Russia. These memorials are inscribed 'Pro Patria.' This is contrary to the truth...