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Word: expressione (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At its centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pacific Pageant | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Until two years ago he played touch football twice a week with his students. To his students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: St. Paul's Fifth | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Russia's Battle? Not long ago a delegation from bleak and once-unfriendly Tibet* tramped to the Chinese military headquarters in Szechwan Province, there presented the Generalissimo with 10,000 sheepskins contributed by Tibetan monks, officials and peasants as "an expression of unity against the Japanese invasion." Through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Westward Ho! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Wilder has been noted for his experimentation with techniques of expression; his prize winning play, "Our Town," was produced without scenery. Wilder explained this unusual approach as an attempt to re-enlist the imaginative collaboration of the audience by reducing the scenery to mere symbol, and a frank underscoring of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Playwright, Says Drama Club Had 'Verve' in Past | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Although the principle in itself is admirable because it promotes good feeling in the Western Hemisphere, it is again unfortunate that the second scholarship plan should come so soon after the first. The appeal for the first plan should come so soon after the first. The second appeal is to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROOF NEEDED | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

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