Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indians. And now comes the most courageous of them all: the Council of Government Concentrators dares to pull the chair out from underneath the Student Union by becoming the forum for government discussion, while at the same time affording a sanctuary for Hearst-ridden professors who may here express opinions too hot for New Lecture Hall...
Sirs: Your opinion-pardon me, TIME, does not express opinions-your description of Boake Carter's "sinister British baritone" and "his freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his head" (TIME, April 13) agrees with mine...
Actually that harmony was an illusion. The national Chamber was founded in 1912 under the benevolent eye of William Howard Taft for the express purpose of answering the old question: "What does business think?" The answer is that business seldom agrees on any but the broadest and vaguest questions. The legislative interests of one company, of one industry, may directly conflict with those of a dozen others. Lately the Chamber has been criticized for representing only small commercial enterprises. Only last month it was learned that the Automobile Manufacturers Association had transferred its allegiance from the Chamber to the more...
...Chicago Tribune thus headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF. TO DOPE YANK TALK *As an instance of British borrowins;, Mencken cites the fact that "the London Daily Express has lifted the whole vocabulary of the American newsweekly, TIME, and adopted even its eccentric syntax...
...troops marching up to the front line; his aide tossing packets of cigarets from a speeding car, and the soldiers stamping them into the mud after he has passed. The German veterans' version of I Want to Go Home: "For this campaign isn't an express train, So wipe your tears away, With sandpaper." The mistier background of the "home front," where "unaccustomed to apply the standards of reality to the speeches of their masters, and demand a reckoning for squandered blood and wasted years, [people] toiled in the factories, fields, and cities, sent their children...