Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was indignantly denied by a Cunard official to reporters of London's Daily Express. "It is incorrect." snapped Cunard's spokesman, "to say that the com-pany do not believe that a ship of the size of the 534 could pay her way. The ships paying the best in the Atlantic service are the large ones. . . . The suspension of work was because of the inability to obtain loans in the City at reasonable rates of interest...
...Smithsonian Institution on oceanography, sea life, birds and bugs, onetime aide-de-camp to Louis, oceanophilic Prince of Monaco. Mr. Clark is director of the A. A. A. S.'s press service. He must make certain that facts are fit to print. Few men with technical education can express themselves lucidly. From Mr. Clark they learned that "manuscripts and abstracts should be written in the simplest possible language, and in such a way as to be under stood by any educated person who lacks detailed knowledge of the subject treated. Especially should the broader aspects of the subject be presented...
Surrealists do not believe in thought. They paint subjectively, they insist. They slap paint on canvas to express not what they see but what they feel. Paris has about 20 or 30 recognized surrealists, all anxious to claim Pablo Picasso as one of them for his abstractions. Painter Picasso has persistently declined the honor, insists that there is nothing extemporaneous about his work, that it is all elaborately thought out in advance...
...received a reporter in good faith, and had treated him with courtesy. The report in general is not more erroneous than could be expected from a green hand; but the headline is an absolute misrepresentation, of what I said and what I think and what I express in print. Very truly yours, Albert Bushnell Hart...
...fair cross-section of the student body--an undertaking larger than it ever will be again, because they had to deal with three classes, whereas hereafter their attention will be almost wholly confined to freshmen, or, more strictly, prospective sophomores. The difficulty was increased by permitting the students to express their preference, no one being obliged to enter any House he did not choose. There was, indeed, much preference expressed, and it is noteworthy that under such conditions all the Houses should be so nearly filled. One hears men, assigned elsewhere than their first choice, now insist that the House...