Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the last trunk has been delivered to Wigglesworth, the Express Agency settles down to the less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of student laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for those students who wish to have these bundles picked up and receipted for at the dormitory, avoiding the weekly trudge to the postoffice...
From Maine to California, the Railway Express Agency is reaching out its efficeint tentacles to pick up hundreds of trunks, bags, and boxes preparatory to depositing them inside the doors of several hundred Freshman dormitory rooms in Cambridge...
...Express facilities in a college town are taxed with two "peak load" periods, the incoming in September, and the exodus in June. But the reserve power of a national organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home-to-room service is unimpaired in efficiency. The express agency does the job in one motion, saving the trouble of moving by separate stages...
...confident that I express the opinion of thousands of alert readers and writers who have long been aware of John Dos Passes' excellent work when I send along my congratulations for TIME'S topflight review of The Big Money in the Aug. 10 issue. An able, critical estimate of which TIME'S Books editor may well be proud. AUGUST W. DERLETH...
...decided to use for the first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that complaints of oil price-fixing had been received, that at President Roosevelt's express request the Department of Justice would investigate. Three months ago a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, has since examined more than 100 witnesses...