Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mediatorial zeal and faithfulness, and I cannot appreciate enough the great credit Mrs. Lowe-Porter has earned with her linguistic reproduction of my work for the English-speaking public. Not always have the reviews done her full justice, and that is why I wish to express my appreciation publicly. My literary standing in this country and in Great Britain would certainly not be what, gratifyingly, it is, if I had not had the good fortune of finding a translator of the devotion and linguistic talent of Mrs. Helen Lowe-Porter...
...Ocean will be what the Mediterranean was for 20 centuries-the lake of decision. Implication: to the strongest power along the shorelines of this new Mediterranean may fall the splendor and the responsibility that once were Rome's. That strongest power is the U.S. Its war aims ultimately express only one concern: the safeguarding of the unique U.S. position as the dominant Atlantic power...
TIME'S Air Express Edition is a real contribution to the thousands of English-reading people in Latin America," says Jefferson Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. "An indispensable link with the world beyond the horizon. It is impossible for one who does not live here to appreciate its importance" writes Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell. And Venezuelan Ambassador Diogenes Escalante calls TIME "the most efficient help to the cause of mutual understanding between the peoples of this continent...
...Time Air Express was conceived as our contribution to the Good Neighbor Policy," we wrote in asking these men for their opinions. "We are not unduly concerned over immediate profits or losses if only this new venture is proving its worth in other ways-for we firmly believe that the quickest possible exchange of news is essential to hemisphere solidarity and to the strengthening of the ties of commerce and general goodwill between the Americas...
...cheering side, we know that circulation has almost tripled. We know that TIME Air Express is looked forward to each week by almost every U.S. family living in Latin America and the West Indies and by thousands of other business, political and cultural leaders. We have watched its operations expand to include special printings (for quicker delivery) in Mexico City, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. . . . But the great question is whether TIME-by-Air is helping to bring Americans of both continents closer together-and now the time has come to take stock frankly...