Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declining to express any personal convictions, President Conant promised to present the Corporation with an Outline of the Plan for Refugee Aid and the plea for University cooperation when it meets Monday. A delegation of eight representing the Committee for Refugee Aid and four of its 14 sponsoring organizations submitted the Outline to the President in his office yesterday morning...
...ability, who had already chosen tentative fields of concentration, in advanced work for which they might find the time. Thus, Dean's List men for whom the freshman year largely repeated their prep school work would not be "leveled down" by standardization, but would be given an opportunity to express their bent earlier in their college careers...
...lady who, visiting Paris with her mother, was sadly disconcerted one day to find that the old lady had Disappeared and that nobody would admit that she had ever existed. For the mother, The Lady Vanishes substitutes a dowdy English governess (Dame May Whitty); for Paris, it substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story for the old lady's complete blotting out, it substitutes an international intrigue, two British cricket fanciers and a mort of shootings and stranglings...
...experiences as a 19-year-old rookie in U. S. Army camps during the World War. That was his first book for grownups. Before that he had written and illustrated two juveniles, Hansi and The Golden Basket (he has since written two others: The Castle Number Q and Quito Express), but to adults he was known as a Vogue artist and as manager and decorator of Manhattan's small, expensive Hapsburg restaurant. With his second and much lengthier autobiographical volume, Life Class, Bemelmans again writes as perfect an equivalent of his ingenuously sophisticated drawings as James Thurber does...
...that no embassy attache's life is worth the staggering sum demanded. It is equally indisputable that the Jewish Germans, already bled by the Hitler regime, are in no position to pay the forfeit required, Thus, a world whose patience Hitler has frayed twice in the past year should express in terms as strong as those used in the Austrian and Czech crises its disapproval of such barbarianism. To the pleas of France and England, Hitler has already shown himself impervious. But a scowling rebuke from the United States, doctrinal defender of South America, in which Hitler has evinced...