Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...
...merely a series of five-finger exercises, an attempt to put the Principles of Design through their paces, to make drawings and paintings which will be illustrations of basic principles of order, not an attempt to explore the relation between what the artist wants to say, to describe, to express, and the particular means he chooses with which to do it. If art is a language, then one can scarcely hope to learn its words without their meanings...
...letter to Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and C.U.U.T. president, Green wrote, "Be assured of the full support and assistance of the A.F. of L. I express the hope that you may hold a most successful and satisfactory conference...
...released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions. He was described as looking much tenser than usual. Suddenly his entourage realized when he began that, having prepared...
Idaho. It was 2:30 on a Sunday morning in quiet Nampa, Idaho. Straight down Third Street South, past the Pacific Fruit Express yards, a car raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous...