Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when they can be realized. The American delegation contended for immediate action. Other delegations felt time was required. Without taking a position between the two viewpoints, and with full recognition to the generosity with which the American delegation has given us its time and its activity, I cannot but express my own regret, first, that the delegation should have felt it necessary in any circumstances to withdraw and, secondly, felt it necessary to withdraw before the end of the conference...
Almost two years have passed (TiME, May 12, 1923, et seq.) since a horde of Chinese bandits rushed down the steep, cloudswept sides of the mountain Pao-tzu-ku, derailed the Peking-Shanghai express near Lincheng, carried off 24 foreigners and nearly 300 Chinese into their impregnable lair, there to hold them for ransom while the representatives of the Occidental powers worried and fumed and sent stern reminders daily to the equally worried and more impotent Chinese Government...
...spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not like the undergraduate spirit of other colleges, and the CRIMSON is to be congratulated that it has the courage to stand among the ranks of those who are not afraid to express appreciation and approval of "indifference" in its better sense. Attitudes are perhaps the most important and surely the most lasting part of that stuff called education which colleges dispense. There are those who think that a college should function only in the class room, but it is infinitely easier to believe with the multitude that a properly proportioned counter-poise of other...
Beckwith was also eloquent on the advantages of an ambulance as a means for the transportation of baggage. "All I have to do," he said, "is jingle my bell and I can go right through the safest safety gone in Boston. I recommend it to all express companies which wish to speed up their service...
...making this gift, the undersigned desires to express the hope that, if not now, in the near future it may be deemed right and fitting to invite representatives of Protestant communions other than the Protestant Episcopal Church to a share of the control and direction of the erection, maintenance and management of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and neither the execution of this agreement by the undersigned nor the making of the donation aforesaid by the undersigned shall be considered or construed to prevent the amendment of the charter, constitution or statutes of the Cathedral of St. John...