Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish here to express my admiration for this weekly news periodical. The LETTERS section is a veritable "Comedie humaine." I disagree thoroughly with all of your critics; 1 enjoy your language and the manner of most all your "write-ups." The report of the Florida disaster was tremendously effective: "midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps" is fine; "People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass" ; "creatures crept-pawed dazedly-sought kin-bodies"-what a picture! Desolation ; and then "ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses." And so on. I do not mind "famed...
...slips which will be found in the by room in the quadrangle of Morris Hall. Business School students are asked to express their opinions as to the management of the halls. Students may register for two meals a day, breakfast and dinner except for Sunday rich for $8.75 a week or for three meals daily, except for Sunday night for $11. Any suggestions which students wish to offer may be made on the backs of the printed slips...
...judgment seems to have been justified, to express the matter mildly. In 1897 his team beat Harvard, Cornell, Carlisle, Wesleyan, Brown, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, Virginia, Lehigh, Bucknell (twice), Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Jefferson, and Gettysburg. The team won all 15 games played, scoring 517 points to opponents...
...response to the popular demand for a solution to the eating problem which faces the University, the CRIMSON announces the opening of a prize essay competition on the subject of the gastronomic situation in its relation to the student body. By offering such an opportunity for men to express their sentiments on this vexed question, the CRIMSON hopes to elicit a number of constructive suggestions which will assist in its ultimate solution. The money for the prizes in this contest is being contributed jointly by the Student Council and the CRIMSON...
...Professor Murray touched on the Greek ritual of song and dance, which went under the name of "molpe," and which he defined as worship of this spirit of beauty. The ecstasy to which contemplation of this spirit raised the worshippers was such that mere words were too weak to express it, and movement was the natural means sought as a vent for the emotions...