Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five or six representative answers which were printed all said that the University was able to afford taxes and should pay them. The "Citizen" is seeking an answer from this side of the river which will express Harvard's point of view...
...outline of white. The whole has little depth; all is subordinated to color. After seeing this picture, it is amazing to see what a master like Georg Crosz can do with the same methods. In the brutal "Brotherly Love," he achieves wonders with his medium. He employs color to express his emotions, and without the violent reds and contrasting blues, greens, and yellows, the picture would lack its forceful meaning. This war picture has, however, the necessary form in which Zerbe is so deficient. Grosz seems to round out his color scheme and to give real modeling to the figures...
...difficult for me to express my gratitude to you for having cast me in the role of Alice in this Wonderland, but certainly I no longer doubt the existence of Americans-even in our land of planned scarcities-since, through your generosity, I met Robert B. Snowdcn Jr. here on his Arkansas plantation...
...1930s, these oracles have been supplanted by a new group-educators and psychologists, who try to eliminate emotional attitudes toward the problem and express numerically the chances that a particular couple will be happy if they marry. For this purpose they question a large number of married couples in an effort to determine statistically how happy they are, what kind of personalities and opinions they have, how they have been brought up. These investigators then calculate correlations between particular personality traits and happiness. One of their most notable pronouncements is that people who like comic strips are happy in marriage...
...commodity prices, the first signal of Depression II. Last February Professor Roosevelt again delivered himself on commodities, this time documenting his remark with a dozen charts which he didactically explained with a long wooden pointer. Last week "a White House Spokesman" (see p. 13) had some thoughts to express not only on commodities but on the entire economic condition of the U. S. From Hyde Park the "spokesman" delivered himself to the following effect...