Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, I was trying to express to a friend (who is not a Methodist) the need for more practical idealism and more inspired common sense in managing our foreign policy. I was thinking of the kind of church people whose religion moves them to do things, not just to say them, and who, therefore, feel their ideals must be workable, and that common sense can have a spiritual quality. Many people, Catholics and Jews and others, are that...
...haven't been a straw in our G.I. haystack long enough to have experienced the despair, nor am I qualified to express the sentiments of a veteran campaigner, but for my part portions of "When the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead . . ." (TIME, April 24) deserve prominence atop an imaginary marble pedestal in our nation's literary hall of fame...
This is Mary Welsh, who covered the Battle of France for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express, got out .of Paris two jumps ahead of the Nazis, helped cover the Battle of Britain for TIME. Graebner has described her as "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London...
This activity is certain to hamper postwar German attempts to recapture Latin American drug markets. But last week Sterling's stocky, blue-eyed. 46-year-old President James Hill jr. proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer...
...Constitution," said the new Justice, "is an experiment, as all life is an experiment." Holmes was "like rum to the other judges." But those who feared he would express his broad theories in frequent dissents were disappointed. In the newly begun battle between organized labor and the corporations, Justice Holmes dissented from his colleagues only twice in seven years. In the next five years he delivered two stirring dissents upholding workingmen's right to strike and form picket lines...