Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fairbanks is wide open. Gambling flourishes in back rooms. Nobody in Fairbanks was surprised at the arrival of an air express package marked simply: "One magnet, dice, and electrical attachments." Alaska still views the old-fashioned brothel with sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde Big Babe, and the rest of the girls who keep open house along the "line." Alaskan liquor stores sell a clear, malevolent fluid called Spirits of Peoria, a 190-proof potion calculated to make the mildest man click his heels and bay like a malemute...
...pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant to be kinder: "A piece that you [should] . . . see whenever something in the news makes you ponder that pregnant question: The Americans, are they human...
There are millions of people in Holland, and other countries of Europe, determined not to leave their country in the lurch in difficult postwar times, working harder than ever, and absolutely convinced that their children will find a good future there, if they too want to express their love for their country in hard work. So do not worry that we all want to join your "paradise" over there. Personally, reading about the life in the States in TIME, I am every week more and more glad to live in Holland...
Only a few years after slavery had been prohibited in the Nebraska Territory and with the pony express yet to be replaced by the overland telegraph, Roscoe Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1870. His father was a judge; his mother, an amateur botanist...
...Delgado, thinking over a problem he had set himself-how to break a 25-lb. concrete water-meter cover-showed a disastrous bent for physics. He wrestled the slab to the Western Pacific Railroad tracks near San Francisco, confident that the train would do it easily. The Feather River Express rattled down the main line and hit the concrete block, the locomotive and tender jumped the rails, the baggage car rolled over with a crash, and five people were hurt...