Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guard wish to express our sincere appreciation for your efforts in uncovering certain unlicensed radio equipment in Chatham last Sunday afternoon...
Regulations; No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...plethora of composers: What we lack is men writing music. Shostakovitch, the most talented and promising of the moderns, is a case in point. In his recent Seventh symphony, which Haggin of the "Nation," a top-notch critic, called "pretentious, feeble, inane, and banal," he was trying to express the heroic character of the time we live in although his own nature is unwarlike and introverted. He attempted to say with music what was in the nature of the case impossible...
...meaning of Brazil's belligerency in World War II may still be dubious. But to a U.S. engaged in global war it was reassurance that the power of a trustworthy friend would embrace half the South American continent. In a message to President Vargas, President Roosevelt said: "I express to Your Excellency the profound emotion with which [Brazil's] courageous action has been received in this country. ... It adds power and strength, moral and material, to the armies of liberty...
These startling assertions express the views of two ranking U.S. geologists who agreed last week that large parts of every continent (with the possible exception oi Australia) are soaked with petroleum, Wrote Harvard's Professor Kirtley F Mather in Science: there is "no chance' that the U.S., which has produced two-thirds of the world's oil, has any monopoly of it. Wrote Wallace E. Pratt, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey: finding oil requires a "delicate synchronization of science, machinery, and the human equation" that is peculiarly American. His new book...