Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, many agencies have rushed investigators to Canton. Last week the Pittsburgh police held one "George the Greek" Psialias, alleged "reindeer," who was shown to have been near Canton at the hour of the shooting, but who eluded detention before Canton's sleuths could pin direct suspicion upon him. Canton's citizenry, abashed by their own past political indifference and by a week of unproductive sleuthing, forced the suspension of their local police chief, Seranus Lengel, who had been one of Mellett's prominent targets. There was even talk of changing Canton's form of city...
Results. In 1916 only 13 U. S. counties had health units to direct intelligent control of epidemics, infant and child hygiene, school hygiene. Last year there were 299. The Rockefeller Board gives such units temporary help, loans them experts, trains their executives. Last year it aided similar rural health services in many European countries...
...Caillaux sat down than numerous "Alfonses" sprang to their feet and hurled diverse protests. Amid wild confusion M. Leon Blum, fiery Socialist, bitter foe of Finance Minister Caillaux and Premier Briand, poured forth a tirade in which he tore M. Caillaux's proposals to tatters, pleaded for a direct levy on capital to save the franc and pay all debts, hurled awful warnings of "enslavement by foreign credits...
...duty, cable ships fly a signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond between them; by night, lanterns hung, vertically, red above, and below, white between...
...Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people, lie moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume. But it is something of a service to the unphilosophical public to have...