Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotion was that the bit of metal marked the end of a grueling six-month search for his son-in-law, Pilot S. J. Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose...
...Federal Government may publicly express a pious wish that "industrial conflict would cease", or the virile hope that some "settlement satisfactory to both sides could be worked out", but certain it is that bloody strife between capital and labor will continue as long as organizations like the C.I.O. established for the deification of an aspiring Mussolini like John L. Lewis know they can count on the support of Federal, State, and local governments to come to their rescue when it appears that man's sacred right to work might be enforced after...
...January 1926 radio-telephone service was successfully installed by the German Railroads. Today, many express trains are equipped with radio-telephones; for instance, six expresses between Hamburg and Berlin...
...accidentally by Cleveland's famed Young Bob Feller at Henry Leiber of the New York Giants. Next noteworthy bean balls were thrown purposely by famed Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals at members of the New York Giants in St. Louis last fortnight to express his indignation over an umpire's decision. The Dean bean balls resulted in a free-for-all fist light on the field, fines of $50 each for Pitcher Dean and Outfielder Jimmy Ripple of the Giants...
...wish to express my very deep appreciation of the quick insight of the faculty members and students into the dire need of the wounded men who have fought for the legitimate government of Spain against Fascism...