Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Mayor Bowron, a chronic worrier, this has merely meant more problems to worry about, e.g., how to get more houses, more schools, more water, more express highways. Says he of his sprawling city's increasing bigness: "I hated to see it come, but here...
...Unnoticed by the Times two years ago was the death of an even more famous cat and mother: Sally, a sleek, green-eyed Persian owned by pawky Sunday Express Columnist Nat Gubbins. The proud mother of 126 kittens produced at the rate of 2½ kittens a throw, Sally always treated Gubbins' ribald remarks about her fertility with cold disdain. During the war she conducted a long and frosty correspondence in her master's columns with a Russian cat who advocated scientific speedups in kitten production. At the ripe age of 14, Sally died giving birth...
...last week, eight months later, all London seemed to know about it. One of the recording musicians had whispered to a friend, and the friend had told the Daily Express...
Greek at Twelve. At swank St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, cherubic Edward John Trevor Davies found his U.S. schoolmates deficient in languages ("Everybody was surprised that I had studied Greek when I was twelve"), English grammar ("The average boy could not express himself on paper"), and European history ("Only 10% knew the number of the monarch of Great Britain...
Last October, the Committee rejected the plan as too costly, and gave a tentative nod to a $700,000 program of scholarships and a plaque. A large group of young alumni banded together to express its approval of the activities center, and successfully stimulated additional alumni interest. The Alumni Bulletin also came out for a large-scale memorial. At its next meeting on February 29, the Saltonstall Committee recognized alumni sentiment. It lent preliminary approval to a $750,000 scheme for an auditorium attached to Memorial Hall and meeting rooms in the building's basement--all in addition...