Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to express our sincere gratitude for your splendid news coverage of the Rainey-Regents controversy at the University of Texas (TIME, Nov. 13; 27). We were particularly pleased that you gave publicity to the students' viewpoint, something that so many newspapers of the state have more or less ignored. The controversy is not yet settled and the student body and all other liberals of the state continue the fight for the restoration of academic freedom and President Rainey...
...Soviet Union and of the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, where I have often visited an old friend. Food and clothing in both places are about the same, maybe a little better in Lansing. But should my Kansas friend decide his penitentiary was not well run, and express the hope that there might be a change of wardens, he would run no danger of being shot if he were overheard, by a stool pigeon...
...lives with his buxom, red-topped wife, his two daughters, and assorted animals in a cozy house in Surrey which he calls "The Nest." Each week, an army of Britons (including Winston Churchill) regularly read Nat Gubbins' column "Sitting on the Fence" in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. There Britain's most popular columnist sets out, through various mouthpiece characters (including himself) his often tart, always British comments on his life and hard times...
Twelve to 15 new express highways, radiating from downtown Boston, are among the professors' suggestions for improving upon Boston's limited accessibility by automobile. They place increasing emphasis on more and better highways as the key to the Hub's transportation difficulties, making no additions to the city's repaid transit system...
...passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...