Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proponents of simplified spelling argue that it is illogical to use superfluous letters to express simple sounds. They argue also economy of effort in learning and writing. Opponents argue that simplified spelling makes words "ugly," that derivations are obscured...
...airships for regular Atlantic crossings. The approximate cost of each trip would be $50,000, while the revenue would be something like $80,000 from 25 to 30 passengers (at a rate of about $5 for each pound avoirdupois), $15,000 from mails and $20,000 from baggage and express packages, leaving a neat profit for the operating company. The price for each passenger is estimated as about $700. When once a feeling of safety had penetrated the public, Dr. Eckener predicted a great scramble for bookings...
...find it somewhat difficult to express the indignation that I feel after reading the current issue of the Bean Pot. I do not expect a comic periodical to be dignified in tone nor entirely truthful. I look for a degree of exaggeration in its columns. Existing standards condone the lack of dignity and truthfulness which characterize many of these publications...
...rendered most news journals useless as conveyors of fact. They are mirrors of bias. This trend began during the war and is now predominant. The CRIMSON has no interests controlling it and so it is live where its contemporaries are dead. Its life is mirrored in its editorials, which express a definite, forceful opinion in great contrast to a journal which must cater to its public...
...Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come to an end-the U. S. Government vs. Harry F. Sinclair and the Mammoth Oil Co. (TIME...