Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to express the hope that the future holders of these scholarships will return to Minnesota," Mrs. Christian said in establishing the awards...
There can be no more proper way in which to allow Harvard students to express their sincere sympathy for the cause than to put the meeting for once within the pale of respectability. The decision to let a well-organized parley in the soothing atmosphere of Sanders Theatre take the place of the unforgettable free-for-all on the Widener steps or other unhallowed ground should draw to the gathering the best elements of the anti-war movement...
...only is Boake Carter currently the most popular of Radio's news commentators, with a rating of 12.6 by the Crossley Survey* he is also far & away the most daring. His freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his curly head is the wonder of a notoriously timid industry. However, while Carter's crusty editorializing delights thousands of listeners, it chagrins thousands more, keeps him in a perpetual controversial stew...
...Royal Academy. Father Templeton got himself elected to the London County Council but found it unnecessary to spend any money after his son's first term. Thereafter Alec earned his way with scholarships. At 16, he bested 20,000 pianists in a contest sponsored by the London Daily Express. Alec Templeton won a grand piano, learning the contest piece as he has learned all his large repertoire, by hearing others play, listening to phonograph records, studying Braille texts...
...James was more than willing to comply. On a cooked-up charge of treason, Ralegh was tried and condemned to death. On the eve of execution he wrote his famed farewell to his wife: "First. I send you all the thanks my heart can conceive, or my pen express, for your many troubles and cares taken for me. which-though they have not .taken effect as you wished-yet my debt is to you never the less. But pay it I never shall in this world. . . . Beg my dead body, which living was denied you; and either...