Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also novel. To him the quarterback was the "brain" of the team, and he did not propose to risk the quick, clear thinking of that brain by forcing the quarterback to carry the ball and get roughed up so badly in the scrimmages that he would be unable to direct his team successfully. Haughton's strategy, therefore, always aimed at the preservation of the quarterback's mental clarity. He preferred a lightweight whose brain was functioning every second to a big powerful man who was a good ball carrier, and so more easily tempted to run the risk of being...
Meantime, LaFollette headquarters in Washington continued to issue "direct challenges," "defies," "prizes for evidence contradictory to this and that charge," all published under the direction of Candidate Wheeler...
...Teagle stated that, under existing conditions, gasoline could be obtained more cheaply in many cases from fuel oil than from crude petroleum. But fuel oil has been so extensively taken up of late that it is now sold in direct competition with coal. In consequence, the going price of fuel oil depends to a considerable extent on the current price for coal. From this it follows that the price of gasoline, too, depends somewhat on coal prices...
Yale University, confronted with a housing problem by reason of increased enrolment, settled the quandry in a manner which seemed, to the unbiased observer, direct enough. A new dormitory was designed, a site chosen on the campus, and early one morning some workmen went out with picks and broke ground. Instantly the University was swept with winds, avalanches, storms, of protest, objection, controversy. The dormitory had been designed as a reproduction of Connecticut Hall, home of the fathers of Yale, in their day the only building on the Campus.* That any other should be erected, whether in imitation...
...petition to have the club evicted. University authorities ordered the club to depart in obedience to an ancient rule forbidding the use of dormitory rooms as club headquarters. Whereupon the Harvard Liberal Club offered the use of its rooms and the LaFollette men kept on with their work of direct- ing the silver-haired Senator's campaign in and about Cambridge...