Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to ... express the appreciation of The Star [published by the patients of the U.S. Marine Hospital for lepers in Carville, La.] . . . and others of the patient body who read your account of the Hornbostel [leprosy] case [TIME, May 27]. The quality of your reporting was conspicuous by the absence of sensationalism...
...still sprinkled with feudal glitter; while they fear that Russia might smash it completely, they are not so sure that the Americans, with their strange, casual-tough ways, might not harm it too. They would like to get rid of all occupiers, Eastern and Western alike. Viennese cabaret skits express their mood. Samples...
Quipped Columnist "William Hickey" of London's Daily Express: "Alas, poor Oxford! Torn 'twixt atom and rowlock, the sliding world and the sliding seat...
About 1,500 students met in a mass meeting to deplore the appointment. The Student Council, by 8-3 vote, wished that someone else had gotten the job. The faculty voted 186-160 not to express regret at Painter's appointment. Painter, in accepting the acting presidency, had announced that he did not want the job permanently. Campus posters punned: "Painter Getting Too Big for his Genes...
...term drew to a close one more example of the awakening of the faculty from its war-induced lethargy presented itself when it voted in closed session to investigate the value of the traditional differentiation between A.B. and S.B. degrees, calling on students to express their opinion on the subject...