Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relations a) by being used for military or monopolistic ends or b) by interfering with the borrowing nations' public debts to the U. S. The bankers at that time agreed to inform the State Department of projected loans in advance, so that the State Department might or might not express objections. The bankers acted voluntarily. There was no compulsion upon them nor did the State Department pretend to any legal right in its previewing of their private doings...
...Giles has stated his objections to the present method of education and examination of the young. His criticism is well founded and his corrective suggestion would seem to obviate the fault. If there must be elementary survey courses, covering tremendous fields with the speed and inevitableness of an express train, then the journey should be conducted as intelligently as possible. To continue the figure, such courses would do well, to adopt Mr. Rich's plan in the cause of a better remembrance of the itinerary, breath taking and limited though it may be. The way stations are sometimes as worth...
...General was there, an engine of the old Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles-battles in which it had brought powder and shot, in which it had been captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Boys in Blue. There was a Wells-Fargo express stagecoach which had once carried gold-dust from the San Francisco mining camps. There were, great behemoths, now in use to pull freight or passengers; G-3-d engines, the most powerful in use on the Canadian Pacific; the John B. Jervis, new Delaware & Hudson locomotive, using the new water...
Without fuss or pother a dark, good-looking man, accompanied by three attendants, boarded the Orient Express at Sofia, Bulgarian capital (TIME, Aug. 8). Next morning newspapers announced in Slavic, King Boris had departed on vacation. Not a word of his destination escaped...
Unheralded, Count Rilski arrived in London, took the famed Scottish Express north. At Balmoral, Scottish home of King George† and Queen Mary, he descended from the carriage, again King Boris of Bulgaria. For the first time since the War, the British sovereigns entertained the monarch of a onetime enemy state...