Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to express my hearty thanks to you for the wholesome attitude you have taken toward the damnable drink situation throughout our beloved land as evidenced by the inclosed clipping. Lillian Farnam...
...Euston-to-Blackpool express rocketed north through the night of the British midlands just west of Manchester, past the signal box at tiny Winwick Junction and smack into a puttering local. When the tumult had died and the ten dead had been laid out in the morgue, British Justice last week went ponderously to work on the facts. To an inquest at Warrington was summoned William Bloor...
...time of the accident there were seven trains approaching, leaving or passing Signalman Bloor's junction. He had just passed through a Manchester express, a westbound freight, the doomed local. He held up a cattle train behind the local to let a fish train pass south. Said he: "The fish train was the key to the movements in my mind." Up from the south roared the fast express. Mr. Bloor got the fish train out of the way. "I was quite relieved in my mind...
...unwieldy as the institution which it was designed to replace. Absenteeism was one of the major defects of the old system, and there is no guarantee that the new council will be free from that difficulty. Like its predecessor again, it has no definite powers. Meeting merely at the express request of the President, it deliberates only on matters submitted by him or suggested by a faculty member...
...such men holding these awards come to Cambridge from southern or western high schools poorly equipped for the unfamiliar methods of study at Harvard. A substantial percentage go on probation at the November Hours and, with the additional burden of financial worries, are sorely pressed for chance to express their full capabilities. When finances become low near the April term-bill they are compelled to spend in searching for work time that should normally be devoted to study. True, five hundred dollars is a large sum for any individual club to award, but the fact remains that without some further...