Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this connection, allow me to express my keen admiration of your masterly sketch of the outstanding Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
...Harvard indifference,--only by changing the psychological atmosphere which surrounds the University. This means firing instructors who are so bored by teaching the students they themselves make the students bored, it means the organization of councils where students may have a chance to express their differences, and it means the placing of emphasis toward the fraternizing of Harvard...
...Bombay a mob set fire to the police .station, put out the city lights, built huge bonfires of British cloth. Police fired into the crowd, charged with flailing lathis (sticks). Many heads were cracked, hundreds of rioters arrested. The Bombay-Benares express was derailed. Hundreds were arrested in Calcutta and New Delhi for reciting the declaration of independence in public and singing patriotic songs. At the end of three days eight persons had been killed, 1,000 jailed, many sentenced to three years' hard labor...
Even now, for a few weeks, only mail and express will be carried below Nairobi until the operators have enough flying experience on the new sector to warrant taking passengers...
Nine years ago William Michael Petrolle was nicknamed "The Fargo Express" because, until he became a prizefighter after taking a correspondence course in a school for boxers managed by onetime Heavyweight Tom Gibbons, he had worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Fargo, N. Dak. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where two years ago he won the most spectacular fight of his career against Jimmy McClarnin, ugly little Petrolle last week sat wrapped in his lucky Indian robe, scowling across the ring at a promising welterweight called Eddie Ran. Ran, knocked down three times in the first round...