Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quandary as to the truth of such a strong statement, the CRIMSON reporter called upon the superior linguistic and elocutionary knowledge of Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, for an opinion as to the truth or falsity of the remark. Professor Packard was 10th to express himself on such an important point at short notice, and quoted Alexander Woolcott as an exponent of the idea of talking things over with one's self, for which purpose he asked a half hour's grace. This was cheerfully accorded...
Everything from tags and labels to rate information on the cost of shipping a trunk to Kamchatka is supplied by the local force of the Railway Express Agency, which is meeting its annual June problem of transporting thousands of pieces of students luggage by placing a representative in each House and dormitory...
...Express forces in college towns have a unique problem in the peak load occurring in June and September. The Railway Express Agency, attacks the problem with the wisdom of experience. The arrangement this year with dormitory representatives assures a smooth and unruffled handling of student baggage...
...given hour spent as a passenger-carrying pilot in scheduled air-transport operation is about 88 times more likely to result fatally than the same hour spent on the ground. Pilots who carry mail & express but no passengers run a risk about 95 times normal; Army & Navy pilots, 170 times normal; Marine pilots, 480 times normal...
...indicated the possibility of irregularities in the original contracts awarded by ex-Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders in 1776. . . . 'There is almost positive evidence.' Mr. Farley, said, 'that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry mail from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth.' " BUSINESS HAS MINUS TROUBLE Babson Sees Industry Going Forward- Declares It Is Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS...