Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Lord) did not know how to finish it. But the letdown is intentional. It leads to one of the best shots in the picture when Scotty Boy and his wife, driving home after a reconciliation, absentmindedly save an old farmer from being run over by an express train...
...director of the Art Students' League. He was born in Norway in 1880, in his own words "by accident of a Norwegian father and an American mother of Scotch ancestry from Massachusetts." A thoroughly academic training gave him great technical dexterity with paint, no very revolutionary ideas to express on canvas. He is famed for pleasant, decorative landscapes and pictures of sailboats off rocky shores. He invariably wears the purple and gold rosette of the National Institute of Arts and Letters; a boutonniere which bears a marked resemblance to France's Palme Academique. His pictures hang in such reputable repositories...
...Harvard Liberal Club has given as opportunity for eminent men of radical opinions to express themselves. But it has been non-partisan on many issues and has not had practical accomplishments as its immediate goal. The Student League, however, has set before itself definite concrete purposes: among its "demands" are unemployment insurance for college graduates who do not find positions, state scholarships for needy students, and the abolition of faculty interference in extra-curricular activities. Among other things it proposes a defense of the U.S.S.R. and an "exposure of the constant trend in America towards a Fascist reign by capitalist...
After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...
...stated value of the common stock. Both these items are carried on the liability side of the balance sheet. Most companies that have done this are holding companies or investment trusts. Other companies have used some surplus to write down such assets as plants. By doing this they express plants at their true value and do not have ti deduct such large depreciation charges from earnings in subsequent years...