Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British sewing circles went into a tizzy when a news photograph of Princess Elizabeth's private desk showed an ash tray and what looked like a cigarette box. The London Daily Express speculated whether the princess smoked in secret. Ready to believe the worst, a crestfallen spokesman for the National Society of Non-Smokers announced: "The society isn't downhearted, of course; we just have to work harder...
Massachusetts went to work yesterday to find out how much it will cost to build a toll express highway joining the end of Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway with the New Hampshire link to the Maine Turnpike...
...Packard. "We rode," he says, "along a magnificent highway. It had twelve lanes but no automobiles. Just bums along the road. At the hotel they asked how much money I had. I showed them my travelers' checks and they said they were no good. I said the American Express Co. would be very indignant about that because they prided themselves on their travelers' checks. I said I'd telephone collect and the American Express could put them straight, but they said no. They loaned me 100 rubles and offered to give me a guide, but I said...
They pursued the simple principle that every object can have an ideal form which, with economy and grace, can express its function. Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools −the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke −had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design. In essence, industrial design was a brave attempt to bring the same simplicity to all the goods and tools of modern living. The depression, when industrialists were willing to try anything to boost sales, gave the designers their first big chance to show what they could...
John Ciardi, assistant professor of English, will be among speakers who will express their opinions on racial equality, religious liberty, and political freedom in America at a "Civil Rights" meeting in the auditorium of the Longfollow School tonight...