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Word: expressiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack this curtailment of religious freedom from the steps of their Mount Auburn Street building. Perhaps it can be considered fortunate that infringement of speech and religion have occurred together. In one telling blow, delivered to a crowd that should block every street from Plympton to Dunster, Browder can express the hopes of Harvard that the Bill of Rights will resist its attackers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOVEMBER TWENTY-THIRD OR BUST | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

From East & West they came, 55 of them, fattish and full of memories. They had read about this year's Wolverine Express. In three games it had scored 138 points, better than any other major college team in the U. S. And in the Big Ten (Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...TIME, Mr. McReynolds plugs for Charles A. Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. In behalf of a few million Americans please allow me to express a preference for Douglas (Wrong-Way) Corrigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Flow, notoriously weak at the beginning of World War I, could possibly have been left vulnerable to a submarine which slipped in and sank Royal Oak last fortnight. The London Times called it "grave matter for investigation by the Naval Court of Inquiry which is now sitting." The Daily Express snorted: "... a disgrace . . . inexcusable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...America-Japan Society again gave the usual dinner. This time Joseph Grew made a speech which was not only unusual: it was virtually unprecedented in ambassadorial usage. The Ambassador gave his distinguished audience an earful which made many of them wish for deafness. He used an unofficial occasion to express an official, definitely controversial, exceedingly ticklish point of view. His words, he said, "came straight from the horse's mouth . . . and mind you, I know whereof I speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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