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Word: expressive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justices Black and Stone, in separate opinions, found nothing in the U. S. Constitution to render Federal salaries immune. In a concurring opinion, Justice Frankfurter observed: "Whether Congress may, by express legislation, relieve its functionaries from their civic obligations to pay the benefits of the State governments under which they live, is matter for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Marshall Overruled | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cow | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...cause: a cow, which had leaped from a cattle car as the freight backed into a siding, fell beneath the wheels, derailed two cars in the path of the express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cow | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

When beefy, bullet-headed Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount Castle-rosse, England's No. i chitchat columnist (Daily Express), fell sick in London's Claridge's Hotel, he disobeyed his doctor's orders by continuing to gulp champagne, devour oysters, receive socialite friends. Result: his doctor moved him to a maternity ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Recently there occurred on the Harvard campus an incident so objectionable that we feel the student body should have an opportunity to express its revulsion. A poster appeared on the bulletin boards Tuesday, which made a vicious attack on outstanding Harvard professors and implied crude anti-semitism, with attempted similarity to the cheap vaudeville of DER STUERMER. Those who have seen the reproductions in a recent issue of LIFE magazine will recognize in this placard a poor exhibition of intolerance and bigotry which is characteristic of all fascist literature in this country. By making illegal use of the bulletin boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

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