Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took only the first hour to make Manhattan realize the importance of elevators in its vertical, hurly-burly business life. While workers twiddled their thumbs, some nervously, some happily, mail and express packages piled up. Postal men knelt in the littered lobbies and handed out mail to clerks and executives they knew; express agencies had to halt deliveries. There was little extensive stair-climbing...
...York Times: for 13 years he covered Vienna for them, for four years was their bureau chief. But the name on the door of a second little cubbyhole office he used was changed frequently. First it was the London Times; then in succession London's Express and Telegraph. As Hitler rose to power, Gedye's impassioned warnings fell painfully on British ears...
From Yenan came Mao's reply to Chiang: "I shall consider the question of meeting you after you express your opinion about General Chu Teh's telegram." This was followed by another telegram from Chu Teh, demanding Communist co-authority to receive the surrender of Japanese forces. "You must publicly admit your mistake," said Chu Teh to Chiang, "and publicly retract your order. . ..." The alternative: civil...
...institution, the singing telegram, and hastened to add that this amenity would not be allowed to confuse the nation's serious business. Also back: congratulatory telegrams. Still missing: such Western Union innovations as shopping and messenger service, sale of traveler's checks, and acceptance of express packages...
...director, a native of Portland, Me., has been in the newspaper business for more than 20 years. Starting with the Portland Evening Express, he later shifted to the Portland Press Herald and Portland Sunday Telegram; in 1929 he went to Paris to join the staff of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune...