Word: conveyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
...George Washington. Secret Service men combed the length of Pennsylvania Avenue, interviewing shopkeepers and householders along the line of the arriving procession, and 50,000 soldiers, sailors, marines, Washington police and firemen were told off to wall the streets. The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington to the New York World's Fair...
...positive tone to poetic translations of human nature. One cannot write convincingly of a universal type of human being, for even if it existed, it would lack the compelling reality which inspires poetry. The force and enthusiasm behind a poem is one factor which determines its ability to convey an impression, and it is rare that such force is generated entirely from the imagination. By discarding vague observations on humanity in favor of the examination of concrete human realities, Coffin has not damaged his position as a universalist...
...which a trumpet should be played. For years, this reviewer has been getting in trouble with certain classical acquaintances because he insisted that the average trumpet man in a symphony orchestra plays without feeling, without life, concentrating on getting a nice, pure classical tone--which doesn't convey the slightest bit of emotion or feeling. Same idea as boiled and ordinary water. One may be a little more impure, but it certainly is more palatable...
Last week the theory that a pun can be the highest form of propaganda was again tried out on the U. S. people. A little-known but potent organization called the Council of State Governments adopted and broadcast Balkanization. Intent: to convey the idea that trade fences erected by & between the 48 hitherto United States are becoming as dangerous to U. S. economy as Balkan feuds have long been to the life of Europe...