Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express my pleasure in once more finding Richard Harrison's ''news maps" in TIME, after what I feared might be a permanent absence? I rate them as one of the most interesting features of the magazine and clip them religiously. A great deal of information is compressed into a small space in Harrison's maps; I remember particularly: "Italy in Abyssinia since 1882," in LETTERS, and "Manhattan's Black City" and ''Baltic Crisis," in TIME. 'Mediterranean Maneuver" and "Memel and Nazis" keep me hoping that Harrison will long continue...
...subsequent course of debate (see p. 22) the Prime Minister's party whips kept his Conservative henchmen on their feet talking about foreign affairs hour after hour, this tactic crowding Labor M. P.'s out of all adequate opportunity to express their views. It amounted, as one U. S. correspondent said, to a filibuster by His Majesty's Government to silence His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
...problem in glass, concrete and steel, Architect Le Corbusier has turned more & more from the problem of the individual house to the intricate business of town planning. In La Ville Radieuse ("The Radiant City''), his newest book, published last September in Boulogne, he tries to express his idea of the city of the future in some 400 confused pages jammed with maps, plans, cartoons, old engravings, photographs. Slower minds could make little of it beyond the fact that he has not yet lost his skill in epi-grammatics. Excerpts...
This laboratory inspection tour of tycoons and sub-tycoons was arranged by the National Research Council. Travel expenses were paid by the tourists themselves or their companies. Travel arrangements were managed by American Express Co. Explained Director Maurice Holland of the Council's division of engineering and industrial research...
...survey of over 100 colleges throughout the country has shown a strong increase in the number of students using the home laundry system and the Express company has been quick to develop the new business on a large scale. Students seem to like the pick-up and delivery service on both ends of the journey which this method of sending service offers. The popularity of the idea may also be partially based on the chance to send the bundle collect and receive it paid...