Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the football team once before a practice, once after, and once some weeks after the end of the season. The same TATs were also given three times to a control group of ordinary students who did not have the opportunity of the football field to express aggression...
...Never before, said Conductor David Moore, had he traveled so fast. Moore's train, the Transcontinental Express, which crosses Australia's desert thrice weekly, was not supposed to exceed 40 m.p.h., but as it roared through the scheduled stop at Deakin one day last month, Moore clocked its speed at a breakneck 72 m.p.h. Passengers caught in the aisles of the six-car train were thrown to the floor as it rocked and swayed. Those who kept their seats had to dodge an avalanche of baggage falling from the racks above their heads...
...London Daily Express wondered whether authors like to reread their own books, asked a few, found Evelyn Wauqh an ardent admirer of Waugh, especially his latest novel Helena, which he had read "20 times" since its publication...
Over & above the echoes, what does Fry say? Little or nothing, say some of his critics. Says a fellow playwright: Fry has simply found "new ways to express old trivialities." Fry's chosen topics are not social problems. They are perhaps much smaller, perhaps much larger. He writes about the love life of a middle-aged duke (A.D. 1950); about the budding of Christianity from tiny scattered seeds in pagan England (A.D. 596); about Moses in Egypt...
Since the letters in question were sent to faculty members, how could it be said that there was any design to mislead them as to the views of other faculty members? Would the letter of one student to another he interpreted as an attempt to express the views of all students? Certainly not, because the recipient would be well aware that the sender was not authorized to speak for all students. Shouldn't we endow the faculty with at least as much political acumen as the student body...