Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, medievalist, "high-church" Episcopalian. Reason: "To express my own disgust at the ignorance and superstition now rampant . . . this recrudescence of blatant bigotry...
After leaving London with the minimum retinue of four aides, Their Royal Highnesses proceeded by ordinary channel steamer to Calais, by ordinary sleeping car across France to Marseilles, and thence, by ordinary express steamer to Alexandria, chief port of Egypt...
...them already know how to write in Latin letters: But this obstacle does not exist for President Kemal, 80% of whose people do not know one letter of any alphabet from another. The President hopes that in two years his people, with nothing to unlearn, will have learned to express old sounds in new letters...
...expert was needed to find out why the National Railways of Mexico have for so long been making so little money. Mexico might have sought her expert in the. U. S. (where most miles of railway are), or in Great Britain (where express trains make longest, fastest non-stop runs), or even in Scandinavia (for Swedes are great railway builders to the minor nations...
...theory of speech is that it began with gestures: "Primitive man would sing, grunt or roar to express emotions just as the animals did. He would pantomime with his face and limbs to express his ideas to his fellows, and as he pantomimed with his hands his tongue would follow suit.* But as he came to occupy his hands more and more in his crafts he would have to rely more on gestures of the face, tongue and lips. Then it would come about that pantomime action would be recognized by sound as well as sight. Speech was thus born...