Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today, in many countries of the world, the concepts of freedom and self-government are merely vague phrases. They express little to people who are engaged in a desperate struggle with ignorance and poverty ... to men who must work from sunup to sundown merely to keep alive . . . men who cannot read & write ... In their present condition, the immediate benefit of steel plowshares or smallpox vaccinations has more appeal than the abstract ideas of democracy...
...friend and fellow Annapolisman, Robert Vogeler, the American businessman jailed as a spy by Communist Hungary (TIME, Feb. 27). Mrs. Vogeler gave him her husband's silver lighter-"to keep until you can give it back to Bob." Then Captain Karpe boarded the blue-and-gold Arlberg-Orient Express for Paris...
...Massachusetts Turnpike Commission today reported to the Legislature as "economically unsound and financially unwise" the proposed construction of a $60,000,000 tell express highway from the Connecticut line across the state to New Hampshire...
...should like, without committing myself on the Cherrington-Mullins controversy, to express my opinion on an incident connected with that case. I am referring to the remarks made by Dean Bender in his History 61b lecture of this past Tuesday...
...Mullins in his column in Wednesday's Boston "Herald." I feel this was unfortunate since Mr. Bender made a point that his comments were not for publication. I do feel that it was unfortunate and out of place for the Dean of the College to choose his classroom to express strong personal opinions such as those he expressed Tuesday. Whether or not students hear their professors' words as Gospel, as Mr. Mullins claimed, it seems true to me that remarks by the Dean are regarded as opinions of the College administration and that students do have a respect for such...