Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of War, in a letter to the New York Times undertook to rebut the new interpretation of history: "From the beginning to the end of my official life in Washington, I never heard the President or any member of his Cabinet, either in conference or in private conversation, express any opinion that the United States ought to go into the War or that any commercial or financial interest, either of the United States or of any group of our citizens, would be promoted by our going...
...terms of bulk and indigestion, needs little proof. Many professors and instructors advocate going to tutoring schools for just such a purpose. Words heard at the end of the term in one large elementary course, "Now, gentlemen, we turn you over to our unofficial confreres on the Square", express and attitude all too prevalent and reveal internal weakness...
...entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within the city limits, set up its post boxes at various drug stores, employed 150 letter carriers. Out-of-town mail was delivered either to the Government post office or to the Pony Express. In 1880 when the U. S. prohibited private mail-carrying, Boyd's went into a general delivery business. As the U. S. parcel post service developed. Boyd's again found itself in unprofitable competition with the Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart...
...record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...
...logical analysis, then their task certainly cannot be properly conceived. At present my impression is that certainly sent my impression is that the light-hearted, superficial but clever boy, given to extremes in thought and dress, is overrated and that the immature but serious boy struggling honestly to express in unadorned English now ideas, and trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last analysis, is one's choice between the shown shoddy road of ultra extreme but passing fashion...