Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easily master at the game of hyperbole, President-elect Prestes cried: ". . . The civilization of America is the greatest assertion of the intelligence and the capacity of a people! . . . Dizzying growth! . . The word 'energy' seems to have been devised to express and define American life in all its aspects even unto its most spiritual manifestations, even when it appears as moral energy, irradiating courage, altruism and human fellowship, asserting its civilization by deeds of daring and actions of good will, of confidence and of faith in the destiny of man, in peace, in liberty and in the justice of nations...
...frankly temporary, to get some revenue, to get people into the air (TIME, Jan. 20).* Last week with a heavy summer traffic fairly assured, the expected return to 7? was announced by T. A. T.-Maddux lines, American Airways Inc. (operator for Aviation Corp.) and Southwest Air Fast Express. Theory: a "habit" of air travel was engendered by the low fares...
Silver Spoon. In Germany's drowsy Munich last week Carol stepped off the Paris express, taxied to the flying field. He was still officially "M. Carol Caraiman," for he renounced even his family name of Hohenzollern when he abdicated as Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. n, 1926). His father King Ferdinand was then alive. His mother Queen Marie had yet to make her U. S. tour. Not until venerable King Ferdinand died 17 months later was Carol's bonny five-year-old son proclaimed King Mihai (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). As he waited at the bleak Munich airdrome last week Carol...
...Fast Express ("SAFE" lines) operating passenger routes in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas...
Some of the greatest university teachers have had trouble with examinations. Nearly all of them express the impossible wish to abolish the entire system if a substitute could only be found. Woodrow Wilson when President of Princeton had section men make up his final tests. He is known to have on occasion described the result as the "limit" and assured his students, "I'll see that it won't harm...