Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes connections with men, both prominent and otherwise, which often in themselves repay the effort of eight weeks' solid work. Nor are these acquaintanceships confined to the University, as all the News candidates are urged to obtain interviews from leading figures throughout the country. The candidate learns how to express himself concisely and intelligently when seeking news and eventually how to order his thoughts clearly in writing up the article...
Sabrina has been hidden in the jail at Litchfield, Conn., in the Connecticut River, in a safety deposit vault, in a farmer's dung heap. Once a plucky Non Sabrina Man forged a receipt to get her out of an express office in Springfield. Mass. Sabrina has been taken to Europe. Sabrina Men are supposed to show the statue once or twice a year, announcing it beforehand so that students may turn out at night with torches. Sabrina is shown briefly in an automobile which speeds away at once, with other automobiles in hot pursuit. The even classes have held...
...national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side of the issues discussed, avoiding an ex cathedra tone...
...popular, able plug-uglies with a definite issue at stake. The natural in the lightweight division has been for some time a match between cocky little Tony Canzoneri, whose puffy mouth stretches all the way across his broad, flat face, and saturnine, hammer-handed Billy Petrolle, "The Fargo Express," with Canzoneri defending his title. It was scheduled for last summer, postponed when Petrolle hurt his arm in training, finally fought out last week before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
...wearied unto death with this preaching. It deadens all thought, it confuses all issues, it is producing in China a horde of hypocrites. . . . Let us cease our talk for a time and cut off our talkers, and let us try to express our religion in terms of life...