Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred miles the other side of Chicago and that Utah and Idaho and Nevada are not allied nations. You will have to demonstrate patiently that illiteracy is not on the increase in your home state, that your college has a library and a few qualified professors, that the Pony Express is not the only available means of communication...
...record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon be one of those to die-and Raider Chief Evans Carlson wrote us later to express his "very genuine admiration" for Sherrod's "courage, fortitude and superb aplomb...
...Cairo-bound Taurus Express rocked and clattered through the harsh, moonlit mountains of southern Turkey. In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major. When control officers at the Levantine frontier saw the special British laissez-passer, they moved on quickly to the next compartment. Chained to Prince Stirbey's wrist as he slept that night was a small, red dispatch case containing, so it was said, Rumania's terms for quitting...
...means a loss of 47% of prewar Poland, while it represents a gain of less than 1% for the Soviet Union. The Polish Government has declared its readiness to discuss concessions, but no government, least of all a government in exile, could make such concessions as this without the express consent of the Polish people...
...Brunswick's Micmac and Malecite Indians in their forgotten art: canoe making. He sews the bark with spruce roots. There are 100 Adney-built scale models in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked words and phrases the original meaning...