Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad to have it applied to the endowment fund of the College of Engineering, if you think that will be the most helpful place." President Farrand agreed that the hitherto unendowed College of Engineering should keep the check as a start. Said he: "I must ask the press to express the thanks of the University. .. ." President Farrand declined to tell on what banks L. H. Anon's checks had been drawn...
...Because my own father died as a result of cancer. Because perhaps whatever ancestral desire I have to explore the unknown is appealed to by the research work and the wish to be a 'crusader,' which almost all of us have, is given a chance to express itself. Finally, because I believe that Americans will be happier and saner if they combine in fighting a scourge like cancer than they will be if they continue to fight each other for money and power...
...discursive for occidental taste. Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...
...Pilot Sam. This handsome pointer found five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing another. Jake, who had backed Shanghai's false point with unsuspecting confidence, located only one covey...
From a wheelchair in Chicago Explorer Osa Johnson resumed lecturing less than a week after witnessing the burial at Chanute, Kans. of her husband Martin, killed in a Western Air Express crash in January that nearly cost her life (TIME, Jan. 25). Declared she, still pained by a brace on her right leg: "I want to get back to the jungles. I could never stand it to stay here in civilization very long. So can't we talk about lions or elephants or orangutans or a beautiful sunset in Borneo...