Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese engineer of the Hongkong-Canton Express kept it going full speed last week after fire broke out in the middle of the train. Three wooden rear cars burned down to their steel underframes and more than 100 Chinese passengers were roasted to death in the speeding pyre. Said the engineer when his train was finally stopped: "I didn't notice it had caught fire...
...rainy morning last week two groups of newshawks arrived at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal in Burbank. One group came to greet famed Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson, due at 10:45 on a Western Air Express plane from Salt Lake City. The other group came to witness the first demonstration of a new radio navigation device developed by Transcontinental & Western Air and just installed in all its planes. The new contrivance, everyone was told, permitted a pilot to find an airport no matter how dirty the weather. TWA's Chief Pilot O. W. Coyle took off with...
...planes. Last week they were back from Borneo jungles for one of their periodic lecture tours. At Salt Lake City he remarked to newshawks: "America, probably because it is the most civilized place in the world, is the most dangerous." Instant later he stepped into the Western Air Express plane for Los Angeles. Month ago another famed couple, the Dame and Seigneur of Sark, just missed a WAE plane in Los Angeles. It has not been seen since (TIME, Dec. 28). Last week the Johnsons, both experienced pilots, gave small thought to this disaster, the first...
...addition, it was pointed out that in several large elementary courses designed for Freshmen, such as History 1 and English 1, the instructors conducted regular reviews, making Union sessions unnecessary. Unless Freshmen express a great demand for reviews before the final exams, they will no doubt be dropped permanently...
...First as to outside activities. A teacher has as much right to engage in outside activities, to give advice and to express his views on public questions as any other professional man. When he does, surely he must speak according to his own conscience and convictions...