Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese, may I hasten to express my sincere appreciation for your article on China in TIME (Nov. 13) . It takes courage and a tough mind to drive home against the current trend of confusion some of the issues involved in the Chinese situation. I am sure every Chinese feels indebted to you for this excellent piece of reporting that will certainly help the public see the entire picture from all sides...
Almost as disturbing to Spain's pudgy dictator were two lines in the London Daily Express, organ of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's great friend (and Lord Privy Seal) Lord Beaverbrook: "If Britain is wise she will allow the Spanish situation to evolve without active interference on her part. By so doing Britain will be able to take any advantage that may be offered by a change without assuming responsibility for its defects, its crimes or even its continued existence...
...answer to the request that discussion groups and books advancing democratic principles be provided for the prisoners, Secretary Stimson said that, "All prisoners ... are free to express their desires for education and ...their interests are encouraged by the War Department through making available to them the necessary materials, time, and opportunity...
TIME writers could find better, clearer ways to express our laws. Better because they would be more widely understood, briefer, better obeyed and fewer. A large number of laws would not be on the books today if the average man knew what they said...
Monsignor Knox retired from Oxford to a Shropshire convent (as chaplain) in 1939 to do his translating. He says he did not ask himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...