Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that American Express's President Reed doesn't read his own pamphlets on tourist etiquette. He advises tourists to be "ambassadors of good will" and, you say, realizes that Americans do not endear themselves to foreigners by spending money. Yet he rollicks through Germany and Italy in a plush, private railway car, and tries to prime the British economy with his lavish gratuities. MAURICE H. OPPENHEIM Mannheim, Germany...
...purpose of the visit by the Argentines and Uruguayans was to express their "solidarity" for university autonomy and to ask their respective governments for more competent professors instead of political appointees, freedom of choice in buying books, and an abolition of government spy networks in the universities...
...another trip seem very good despite early advertising that this was positively the B & M's last steam trip. All steam power was originally scheduled for retirement soon, but the railroad has begun stalling, and 3713, the last of 25 P-4's built in 1935 for heavy express service, may pull a few more trains, after all. Rail fans speculate that the railroad, which has excused its decision on account of "the heavy winter," may wait for a while because of its recent difficulty with the Budd RDC's, single-unit, diesel cars...
...covered much faster if it were mimeographed and read privately. And many lectures seem to have no value except as a convenient rehash of reading material, relieving students of the necessity of consulting their reading lists. If lectures have any utility it is when professors use them to express particular points of view forcefully, thus stimulating the sluggard mind of the undergraduate...
Starting at 10 a.m., the committee will listen to witnesses from the general public who wish to express their views on disarmament. A second session will open at 2 p.m., at which time the Senators will hear the above specialists speak on specific topics concerning important aspects of disarmament...