Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...express the hope," President Conant said, "that Harvard may be for you a center of fruitful controversy and discussion...
Citation, the wonder horse, has covered a lot of ground since winning the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap last fall-but none in actual competition. Most of it has been in railway express cars between San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore and Belmont Park. Like a football hero on crutches, Citation was traveling with Calumet Farm's first team while trainers fussed & fumed over his popped osselet...
This year for the first time the Advocate has adopted an editorial position. Certainly this is a valid move. A college literary magazine with a tradition as old as the Advocate's should take interest and express opinions in college affairs. Last year's article on "The Jew at Harvard," and later the discussion of the club system, were directed toward this end. By editorializing on some of the controversial problems of college life, the Advocate gives impetus to its descent from the yellow pedestal of pure letters...
...telephone his wife and pay his way back to Belgium in return for an exclusive story. "I accepted," said van der Straeten, "and suddenly learned just what journalism is-six parts money and four parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have...
...express from Shanghai clanked to a stop in Peiping's Chien Men station. Waiting on the platform was a solid array of Communist bigwigs-Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Commander in Chief Chu Teh, foreign affairs expert, Chou Enlai, a score of lesser party bosses and assorted "democratic personages." From the train into this welcoming group stepped dignified little Madame Sun Yatsen...