Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stick to Twentieth Century's 17¾-hr. schedule from Chicago to New York. Loafing along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using...
Each speaker is allowed from three to five minutes to express his own views on the Republican campaign. Neither the Committee nor Republican headquarters instruct him as to the contents of his speech; he composes it himself...
...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...
...organized cheering which will start today will give opportunity to the undergraduates to express the confidence which we are sure they have in the team. To make the cheering effective, all who can should sit in the reserved sections...
This petition was circulated throughout Wigglesworth Hall, where the fifty names were obtained. The sponsors of the petition express the intention of taking it to all the Freshman dormitories until they have obtained the signatures of at least three fourths of the class...