Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express himself as to the part science would play in a future...
...Justices of the Supreme Court never, never, almost never publicly express themselves on questions of the day. But even a judge must have friends and acquaintances, and there are grapevines in Washington. How the Court is going to decide any given case is something that never can be found out, but how the Court feels is seldom a secret. It is not today. In his way, Charles Evans Hughes is perhaps the only worthy adversary that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has yet picked. The measure of that is that Mr. Hughes, knowing the President will very likely have...
...killing men and women simply because they are suspected of having independent opinions. All the intelligentsia of Spain, with the exception of a few who favor Communism, have had to flee for their lives out of the part of our country controlled by Largo Caballero. I wish to express my disillusionment in Republican Spain and my remorse for having taken part in creating...
...railroad adage holds that "the faster a passenger train moves, the more other traffic is retarded." Reason: when an express meets or overtakes a local or freight on single-tracked lines, the slower train has to be shunted temporarily onto a siding. In the East, almost universal adoption of double tracks has eliminated this trouble, but in the West many railroads are still largely single-tracked. Last week, one such road, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, announced that it had reversed the old adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which...
When Robert Wadlow was 9 years old he was taller than his father and could toss him around. He stood 6 ft. and weighed 178 Ib. The "express wagon" he played with was guaranteed to support the weight of three grown...