Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first paragraph of the advertisement in question was quoted only last Friday, June 15, in one of the London newspapers (either the Daily Express or the Evening Standard; sorry I can't recall which one), with the shocked editorial comment and facetious reference to the way they do things in pacifistic (?) United States that might be expected. No date was given, of course, and the same false impression was conveyed to readers...
College of the City of New York's Frederick Bertrand Robinson: American commencements in recent years have become occasions on which distinguished men of affairs express incompetent conclusions concerning the purposes and methods of education, and visionary scholars tell industrial leaders and practical politicians just how to conduct private and public business...
...professor, dwells in a small house in Glover Park with his wife and two daughters (Tanis, 17, and Marcia, n), is amiable with friends in spite of his intellectual snobbishness, is shy, cynical and inclined to be inarticulate in company. His vocabulary sometimes exceeds his ability to express himself. Senators felt obliged to ask him what he meant by: "Chance has substituted itself for the anthropomorphic interpretation of history as a casual sequence." Columbia & Campaign. Not his personal characteristics but his social ideas were what made Dr. Tugwell an issue with the Senate. All his life he has been...
...carrying the Minister's bags. There seemed to be no room for the vice consul in the limousine which took Minister Ariyoshi to Nanking Station to join dozens of Chinese government officials and prosperous Nanking merchants waiting for the most popular train in China, the week-end express to Shanghai. Vice Consul Kuramoto signalled a jinrikisha, stepped in, and that was the last anyone saw of him for five days...
...spite of the most securely tied labels, express company officials state that once in a millenium a piece of express may lose its label, an thereby become automatically stranded, unless the sender has taken the precaution of pasting his name on the inside. The express company urges this final precaution to insure safe and expeditious handling...