Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most London dailies expanded from four to six pages, three days a week. Only the News Chronicle devoted the bulk of this extra space to wider reporting of politics and industry. By contrast, Beaver-brook's Daily Express added Dick Tracy and Kit Conquest to its comic strips, expanded the letters-to-the-editor column, and turned Woman's Editor Anne Edwards loose for two columns on her favorite foods and pet hates. The Daily Mirror, locked in a circulation war with the Express, also added a woman's page to its successful formula of sex-plus...
...rate, something ought to be done about the present lack of emphasis on speech at Harvard. Budding young lawyers, or businessmen, or chairmen of corporation boards will all have to express their ideas vocally as well as in letters. True enough, most Harvard men learn how to talk reasonably clearly simply by practicing all the time. But there is enough of a demand for more formal training to indicate that the University should consider a re-evaluation of the importance of speech in its curriculum...
...sake," says Erni, "simply does not exist. It's the idea that matters." The ideas that Erni tries to put on canvas are often understandable enough in themselves, but that does not make them any easier to picture. For example, how should an artist express the thoughts of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground somewhere in Europe? The first part of Erni's solution was to get the woman on canvas as realistically as he could and give her ah expression of dull waiting. Then, just over her head, he drew a tangled cat's cradle...
Fisher claimed last night that the Council ousted him not because of any specific action, but because his "opinions and beliefs differ from theirs." He charged that the meeting resembled a "star chamber session," and that he and others present "had not been given sufficient opportunity to express their views...
...seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that he would be snatched from bed and executed so quickly that he would not have time to express properly his gratitude to the authorities...