Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Why not let Subscriber Epstein (TIME, Aug. 15) in addition to curbing his use of the term "sap" also refresh his memory regarding peculiarities of the verbs "lie" and "lay", should he again care to express an opinion publicly? transitive; "Lay," it has long been thought, requires a direct object. "Lie" is the intransitive verb meaning the act of reclining...
Conservative papers in England, Germany, Scandinavia, hesitated to express opinions or advice on a case falling entirely within the province of U. S. jurisprudence. One German editor, however, welcomed the U. S. into the fellowship of European "humanity, justice and culture" for its supposed stand against the forces of Communism...
...Japan mourned and Emperor Hirohito sent a special representative to the fleet to express his sympathy. From Washington Acting Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson cabled...
...realization that such a disaster must be accepted as a constant risk in the operation of an active and progressive naval organization increases the profound sympathy which I desire to express on the part of the United States Navy to the Japanese Admiralty and to the families of those lost." The collisions were the second disaster in the Japanese navy to occur this August and the sixth to occur within seven years, five of which took place in the month of August. During this period the toll of lives has been more than...
...Flying Express...