Word: expressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elegant express train rolled southward last week carrying Candidate Smith to Biltmore, social suburb of Asheville, N. C., for a week of rest mixed with golf and not voluntarily with politics...
...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
Then he offered affable advice to President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. "If I may take this occasion to express an opinion in the presence of Mr. Lewis," he said, "I think that he made a mistake in holding to the high wages...
...physicist, Dr. Arrhenius turned to his formulas and calculated that sunbeams were their express trains. Now and again Venus gets directly between the sun and the earth. The sun's rays skim the surface of the planet, picking up any adventurous thermophilic bacteria that are in the way and shooting them to earth. The trip takes only two days and the speed is so great that many would survive the cold interstellar spaces they whiz through on the journey...
...present time Harvard enforces a set of language requirements for the express purpose of insuring every students' having a reading knowledge of at least one foreign language and an elementary knowledge of another before he is graduated from the College. The purpose is undeniably laudable; the actual results, however, are open to serious question...