Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want at this point to express sincere thanks to the Austrian Chancellor for his deep understanding and warmhearted readiness wherewith he accepted my invitation and endeavored with me to find a way that is quite as much in the interests of the two countries as it is in the interests of the entire German people whose sons we all are no matter where our cradles stood. I believe we thereby made a contribution to European peace." (See p. 19.) "Self-Determination." Touchiest subject that Adolf Hitler raised was his pronouncement on the favorite Nazi doctrine...
Nevertheless, the improbability of some events possible in theoretical physics is so great that a number somewhere be tween a googol and a googolplex would be required to express it. However, Dr. Kasner points out that no number is anywhere near infinity so long as it can actually or theoretically be written...
Fortnight ago Senator Robert Johns Bulkley of Ohio, facing a primary fight against a hard roads ex-Governor this August, proposed a network of 100 ft. express highways which would avoid towns and cities, shoot directly across and up & down the U. S. There were to be seven North-South routes, three transcontinental. Total cost: $8,000,000,000, to be met in 16 years by tolls and leases of concession privileges along the way. Last week in the House, Alabama's Representative Henry B. Steagall, more famed for banking than transportation legislation, introduced a companion measure...
...only super-highway scheme reduced to map form (see map) and consequently the one on which argument focused last week. It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly to work, says he, and would be a great aid to national defense. (His six North-South arteries stop significantly short of the Canadian border.) His is concrete just heavy enough to stand up under...
This is our last opportunity to express our will as a class. We the undersigned are tired of being asked to vote time after time since our Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...