Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were of every conceivable size, from a V-Mail TIME to a "Pony" edition (the first miniatured magazine to be sent by fast overseas delivery to our armed forces), to "Colt" sizes like the Paris edition, and others in the familiar U.S. TIME size. Some-like our prewar Air Express edition to Latin America and the edition we began in Sweden in 1943-carried their own advertising and served our English-reading subscribers around the earth. But most of them-like the editions printed in Honolulu, Australia, Calcutta-served military needs only...
...world. Some wanted to buy stock in the project; others to make their reservations early. Merchant mariners galore (mates, plain sailors) asked for jobs aboard the ferries. G.I.s and navy men sent in their qualifications and said they would take any old job. Some writers just wanted to express their admiration...
...express Canada's gratitude to the onetime Supreme Allied Commander, this legendary home of the chinook winds, familiar to every tourist who has taken the road from Banff to Lake Louise in a famous Canadian national park, had been renamed Mount Eisenhower...
...Gibson often whizzed down Cranmore Mountain on a wooden sled. But it wasn't until long after he'd made Who's Who, from a standing start as floor sweeper for an express company, that a chance remark by a relative aroused his interest in skiing. Cranmore Mountain had the snow in winter and the slopes. So he bought...
Millar was accepted for Resistance work. At first he was just barked at by his superiors or kept cooling his heels in the dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must...