Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Rear Admiral Bristol said, reassuringly, at Constantinople, as he took the Simplon Orient Express for Paris: "Turkey has now become a robust nation with no fear of her most promising future...
...death Harvard has lost a devoted and efficient servant, and intercollegiate Athletic a faithful and valued friend. The Brown University Athletic Council therefore wishes formally to record its sorrow at his death and to express to his widow and his associates its sincerest sympathy...
These announcements provoked no disorder in the Reichstag or in public places; nor did even the Monarchist press express more than "conscientious objection...
...CREAM . ¶There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported...
...sees no more in the law of poetry than the artificial and arbitrary rules of the game which we adopt as unnecessary limits that we may in the end better express ourselves; he seems to imply that we might just as well have adopted an entirely different set of rules. And he has missed Pascal altogether. We suspect that he has substituted a psychology for its more ultimate. Indeed, he says it best himself: "The affairs of the world interest me only as they relate to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect...