Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came up to London from, Sandringham the day after my father's death [Jan. 20, 1936] to convey the express desire of my mother that the funeral should take place on Jan. 28. She was most anxious to avoid a long and painful delay, like that of two weeks which elapsed between the death and burial of my grandfather, King Edward...
Just when His Majesty's Government were deciding to partition Palestine (see col. 3) much as Ireland was partitioned in 1921, the people of the Free State were adopting last week a new Constitution drawn up for the express purpose of putting Ireland together again (TIME...
What caused most argument during distillation was the choice of one word in the last paragraph: should the publishers express "determination" not to enter into contracts for a Guild shop, or "refusal," or "unwillingness...
...Collector Davis cannot take more for any property than the amount of unpaid taxes. Thus the bidding is in terms of fractions of the property offered, the fractions decreasing as bidders express willingness to accept less & less of the property for the fixed tax sum sought. Usually the fractions go no smaller than one-eighth or one-sixteenth, but at one day's sales in Miami last week the bidding grew so hot that prices spiraled dizzily downward to thousandths, millionths, billionths. then trillionths, finally quadrillionths. Record was set by a man who paid $115.85 for a certificate representing...
Plans for the Reunion were started in January with the publication of the first issue of the "Twelve Twenty-Five Express," the class magazine. Contained in that number was a satirical retrospect in the manner of John Tunis '11 by one of the Class of 1912's sons, Robert Benchley...