Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More recently German agents in Buenos Aires have been sifting each issue of TIME Air Express and then cabling 2,000 words from it to Berlin for the private information of the Nazi chiefs. But beginning this week all the plain, German people passing through Sweden will be able to read TIME soon after you read it here...
...farm and mine town in Yorkshire, people said that if you put up a pig with the Tory blue about its neck, the pig would "get in the Dales" (Parliament). For 20 years Skipton elected only Conservative M.P.s and Winston Churchill's Coalition Government publicly expected Skipton to express the "voice of Britain" at a by-election last fortnight. Said London's Conservative Times, just before the voting: "The opinion is freely expressed that Skipton electors will give the Government candidate such a majority that will, in Mr. Churchill's own words, 'make it plain...
...later, a special message suggested that some of these rights might be achieved by building immediately after the war a mammoth 34,000-mile nationwide network of express and interconnecting highways, at an estimated annual cost of $750 million, to provide jobs for 2,000,000 citizens over a period of 10 to 20 years...
...went on to express her annoyance at the overly strict segregation of sexes here. It is her own personal belief that the average male student profits by a coed atmosphere. Miss Askenazy wishes to do post-graduate work here, and judging from her personal appearance she would be of considerable help creating a profitable atmosphere...
...dogs. Even in winter, 200,000 Londoners throng 19 nearby tracks. Tubes and trolley busses to Wembley, Wimbledon and White City are packed with clerks, Indian students, Irish laborers, barristers and housewives, all conning racing reports in early editions of the Star and fresh tips in the daily Greyhound Express...