Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University tennis team which has not been scored on this season, express to keep its string to victories unbroken this afternoon. The Crimson line-up will be the same as usual with the possible exception of Captain Whitbeck who must be unable to play...
...poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing for England. Her grandson, the Marquis of Blanford, has asked her to be godmother at the christening of her great-grandson; the Archbishop of Canterbury will perform the ceremony; the godfather will be King George of England...
...addition to answering the regular questions which are printed on the ballots, voters may express any further opinions on these subjects by writing them on the back of the ballots...
They say that Daniel Willard's mind proceeds like one of his express trains-from start to destination without local stops. It must have run that way always. Born on a Vermont farm, he won a teacher's certificate before he was 16 and taught while finishing high school. Lacking funds to go to Dartmouth, he made the most of the Massachusetts Agricultural College-made too much of it, wore out his eyes. He got a track laborer's job with the idea of rising to the throttle of a locomotive, which he did in two years...
...full of contrition. With rapt sincerity he said: "There is nothing at Carnegie Tech that can be called drunkenness. . . . Like Hamlet, I have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went on to say that he had been caught completely off his guard by a question from Senator Reed at the hearing, had spoken in the heat of an excited moment...