Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concluding, the committee wishes to express its conviction that the system of student waiters should be, and can be, maintained in the University on a practical basis. The committee feels that the lack of success to date has been due in part to the failure of the waiters to realize fully their responsibilities, but more largely to the failure of those responsible for the running of the dining halls to sympathize with and aid in furthering an innovation that enables men, who might not otherwise be able to meet their expenses, to secure a college education
There are some personalities conjoined to such abilities that critics damn themselves for the faintness of their praise and strangle their vocabularies in ecstatic anguish at the failure of their word-slaves to express the frenzy of their passion...
...Duke of Rutland rode up. Eventually the little that could be done was done. The Prince caught the night express to London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched...
Finally, as dinner time approached, the expensive part of the entertainment was revealed. The Lord Chamberlain threw open the doors of the Frederick the Great Salon. Wilhelm strode proudly in; deigned to express by a gesture that the room had just been "newly furnished with beautiful bronzes, together with brocaded hangings" and many another embellishment imported from Germany...
...learning, evidence grows daily in the University that means for accomplishment are going hand in hand with a realization of the need. The tutorial system extends itself to the department of mathematics. Candidates for distinction are allowed much greater liberty. Tutors are installed in the Yard dormitories with the express purpose of coming in closer contact with their charges not at all as proctors, but on a footing of human acquaintanceship and common possession of intellectual interests. Not the least welcome feature of President Lowell's annual report was its decided indication that, building on the tutorial system...