Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already have evidence of the far-reaching effect of your considerable comment, and wish to express appreciation for the protection which you gave the National Life (of Vermont) through your explanatory note...
...Chancellor Hitler's pogroms are conducted not on religious grounds but on racial grounds (as a mask for underlying economic reasons). In labeling Lawyer Untermyer "Jew" in contrast to "German" for Ambassador Luther, TIME was strictly, significantly accurate. TIME did not thereby intend affront to Jewish sensibilities or express sympathy with the Nazi cause...
...side entrance of the White House. Sometimes he returns to Ithaca for a day or two. In Washington he lives at the Cosmos Club one block from the White House. Since he has been in Washington he has spoken no word to the Press, written no articles, refused to express his opinions even by letter...
...outside reading a few modern novels or plays, presenting a picture of foreign people as they live and talk today. Such works will not only show along what lines literature has recently developed, but will tend to illustrate the ability of a language to assimilate new terms and to express the ever-changing ideas of a modern race. They need not be given too great emphasis by instructors, but should merely serve to bring out the colloquial side of a foreign language...
...ways of growing opium. Stamped on the new money of Manchukuo, he sarcastically observed, is "a beautiful poppy in full bloom!"-an opium poppy. Of the Manchukuo Opium Monopoly, financed by a Japanese loan, Mr. Fuller snapped, "There can be no question that the concern was established for the express purpose of extending and exploiting the smoking of opium!" Across the League table, as these charges were hurled, sat Japan's placid Masayuki Yokoyama, puffing a cigar. Japan has re-signed from the League and the U. S. has never belonged. After Mr. Fuller had wound up by calling...