Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of Lenin gives me the right to call this statement a lie. ... A demand for proof of your statement would probably avail me nothing-and embarrass you a lot. Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...follow the precedents set by the American Governors General during more than three decades." Peppery President-reject Aguinaldo declared the election returns "incredible," swore that he was "not through yet. . . . I have no doubt that electoral manipulations, shielded by official protection, did not permit the people to freely express their will...
...association, Friends of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Comrade Litvinoff's alert British-born wife, Ivy, won her three-year fight to get Dictator Stalin to order every Red Army soldier to learn "Basic English," a simplified vocabulary of 850 words in which it is supposed to be possible to express almost any thought. First English books to be read by Red Soldiers: Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels re-written in Basic...
...sometimes happens, we had no lead story at 11 o'clock Wednesday evening when we recalled a letter which demanded that Mr. Bingham express his views on racial discrimination in the Olympic games. The writer wanted this explanation because the ticket applications this fall are accompanied by a request for a contribution towards Harvard's share in the Olympics fund...
...holding company superimposed on the iron company. The sellers were supposed to have been Cleveland's rich & pious Mathers, who have dominated the company since it was founded in 1850 by a direct descendant of Puritan Richard Mather.* Only one of the six buyers was identified: Adams Express, which is not an express company at all but an investment trust. Simultaneously it was learned that Cleveland-Cliffs was dickering with Hayden. Stone & Co. for some financing by which it might pay off a staggering total of bank loans-$25,000,000 borrowed to purchase indirect control of Corrigan, McKinney...