Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James G. Woolley, onetime vice president of Western Air Express, revealed that Ernest Winder Smoot, son of Utah's pious Reed Smoot, longtime Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been hired to "expedite" Comptroller General McCarl's approval of a Western Air bid for an airmail contract. Harris Hanshue. Western Air president, admitted that Ernest Smoot had "sold" his company the idea that he could put the contract through...
...interposition whatever by employers, and if the men freely choose it. But 99 out of 100 times, you and I know that this is not the case. Let's not kid ourselves, let us act before Congress acts, call in Senator Wagner's board. Let your men express their choice under those public auspices from which no question can arise. Let's get this troublesome question settled and for all time...
...Grace Horn Galleries are good examples of the work of the man generally considered to be Claude Bellow's most able successor. Concerning themselves solely with the prize ring, the ten lithographs form an excellent instance of what can be accomplished by capable mediocrity when given an opportunity to express itself. Mr. Riggs has been clever enough to realize the wealth of artistic material in the vigorous, stinking lewdness of the small-time professional ring, and although he is hampered by a lack of highly skilled technical ability, he has succeeded well in congealing on paper, the brutal spirit...
...Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past ten years may clarify what this miracle play is trying to express. Santayana has returned to the catholic form of Christianity because he feels the necessity for an ideal, as well as for a rational expression of the meanings and values of life. He further believes that Christianity, ideally, seizes the essence of human life and ought therefore to be eternal...
...assignments, such as special claims for wishing to be admitted to a particular House, maximum price of room, the type of accommodation desired, academic standing, proposed field of concentration, activities in which the student has engaged, etc. The application blanks give students an opportunity, if they so desire, to express their special claims for wishing to be admitted to a particular House...