Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the radio program, and a feeble but expensive practical joke by this station on the veteran. Incidentally, as we expected, the statue was mutilated when it arrived, the head having been broken off the body. No doubt we might have said nothing and have embarrassed the express company by refusing to accept the statue when it arrived, thus creating just the kind of argument the stunt program wanted...
...News Chronicle of 1946 is still on a four-page austerity diet. Like them, it has gained in readability from the newsprint shortage that forced British editors to sharpen their pencils and their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ. 196,000), although in all England...
...with great pleasure that the editors of the Crimson make this announcement, and it is with great appreciation that they express their gratitude to those men who have worked on the Service News during the war years, maintaining so ably the tradition of an independent student newspaper at Harvard University...
...Latin American Edition, printed in Jersey City, N.J., and flown south by air express...
Paris, which has no Sunday-evening papers, did not learn that De Gaulle had quit until an enterprising owner of a mimeographing machine got out a handbill with the news. Parisians fought for it at two francs a copy. Next day, Soir-Express headlined De Gaulle's departure with a touch of skepticism. It said...