Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Kozai replied: "Your favor in radio has reached me and I regard it a great honor to accept your generous offer and to express the deep gratitude of our university. The committee of three has been organized and further details shall duly be communicated. Let me tender our thanks and promise to make the best use of your fund...
...paragraphs beginning at the bottom of col. 1, page 18 and concluding the article are as fine a description of a storm and its awful power over man as I have seen in many a day. My commendation will mean little but I felt that I must express myself and that it might interest you to know someone else appreciated a really imaginative attempt to do an age-old subject...
White eyeballs rolled, puffy lips twitched, dining-car waiters nudged one another. Amid the jingling of knives, forks, glasses, the clatter of tableware that trembled, if ever so slightly, as a famed express sped towards Chicago, they whispered about a certain passenger. There he sat, slim, blond, eating-for breakfast, two apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap...
...significant of all, however, is the growth among a small section in some Universities of a leisured attitude to learning. Business America still demands a business education, but the new gentlemanly class, having made the excellent discovery that business is not everything, have begun, by way of reaction, to express contempt for any knowledge which can possibly be of any social utility. Among this class (still a small one) the older kind of "Oxford culture" is therefore the fashion, and, in spite of the fact that America has the finest indigenous architecture in the world and that Gothic...
...another occasion, a Methodist minister ventured to express the hope that, whatever their present divergencies were, his Presbyterian brother and he would be one in spirit after the Union. Returned the Presbyterian: "We certainly shall not-you'll be a Methodist...