Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these results in the Pacific, Pan Am last week announced plans for the Atlantic. This week the company starts an air-express service to Lisbon. When its new African run reaches Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, Pan Am's freight and passenger service will girdle three-fourths of the world. Most airmen think the Africa-Singapore gap will be closed before the war is over...
...meeting sounds impressive. A student unfamiliar with the past history of the H.S.U. might be persuaded to join up on this basis. But a student who recalls last winter's "No Wilson Promises" buttons and last spring's peace strike will think twice before choosing the Student Union to express his opposition to fascism, at home and abroad. The line may turn again, suddenly...
Stating that although he favored an immediate declaration of war as opposed to the present half-way measures where we let others do our fighting for us, still he respects the right of the isolationists to express their views. "The very fact that a vigorous debate continues is a proof that individual liberty is still secure. Only when no voice of dissent is heard must we fear that a group of free men has been transformed into a regiment of slaves...
Said Editor John Rutherford Gordon of the Sunday Express: "What is the matter? Lack of planes? Lack of tanks? Lack of rifles? Lack of men? Probably we do lack all these things but it seems to me we lack something much more important. That is the offensive attitude of mind...
...radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...