Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the British Expeditionary Force. Besides driving cars, ATS duties include clerking, signaling, courier service, running canteens. Like the VADS, the gallant ATS come in for a lot of British ragging. Because their daily basic meat ration is 8 oz. (compared to about 3 oz. for civilians), the Daily Express calls them EATS. Because they are invited en masse to Army dances and sociables, their love life is an inexhaustible subject for wisecracks...
...Dean Landis hesitated to recommend specific undergraduate courses, he did suggest certain subjects as important. He stressed the necessity of acquiring an ability to use the English language. "Over and over again," he said, "I find that many of our students are unable to think accurately because they cannot express themselves accurately. I have always thought that in giving up classical education we have sacrificed a discipline that made for precision in the choice of words and ideas...
Although the British post office limits parcels to 15 Ibs., he was delivered four days later under a service "by which a person may be conducted by express messenger to an address or place of interest." Charge: sixpence a mile, plus fare...
Bridges described John L. Lewis' proposal that the A. F. of L. should charter all C.I.O. unions, thereby uniting all labor in one united organization, and said that the proposal would have been accepted if the individual members of the A. F. of L. had had a chance to express themselves...
Fifty Harvard men, Stan Brown's Crimsonians, the head of the Yardling Dating Bureau and his assistants, the Bachelors' Club, and a box of roses turned out yesterday afternoon at the South Station to greet the New Haven Express, which bore Mademoiselle Paris of the Folies Bergeres and 60 beautiful girls...