Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the time comes for definite decisions," said he, ''we shall then express the definite view which we have frequently expressed before, that destruction of the so-called weapons of offense would be an abdication and desertion of the League of Nations. . . . It would seem illogical and dangerous that it should, instead of being prepared to take over the responsibility for existing weapons, direct that those weapons should be destroyed, only to find later that it is necessary to give financial assistance to any state unjustly attacked...
...Water Valley. Miss., Henry Brassell and his wife had been listening for 20 years to the "music" of Illinois Central trains hurtling past their house. One day they detected a new sound, rushed out to the tracks, found a split rail over which the express had miraculously passed, flagged the next train, were praised for preventing a sure wreck...
...Premier Manuel Azana and his Socialist coalition government, municipal elections in 2,500 Spanish towns and villages last month rolled up impressive Conservative and Royalist majorities. It was the first nationwide chance women have ever had to vote in Spain, the first nationwide chance Spaniards have had to express themselves on the Republic...
...Jewish intellectualism is dead!" cried he. "National Socialism has hewn the way. The German folk soul can again express itself...
...establish an artist's dubious right under an "implied covenant" to force exhibition of his work, but that he had no legal right to the fresco he had sold and been paid for. He fell back on "a moral question" of the artist's right "to express himself; and the right to receive the judgment of the world, of posterity." Said he: "They have no right, this little group of commercial minded people, to assassinate my work and that of my colleagues. They accepted my sketches." He offered to do the whole thing over gratis...