Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Constitutional conditions are expected to prevail and relations between the State and Berlin are expected to improve as a direct result of the resignations...
...letter to the board of trustees, Mr. Morgan expressed the hope that they would elect, when a vacancy occurred among them, a "direct descendant of my father in the male line. . . . provided that he is, in the opinion of the remaining Trustees, a suitable person to be so chosen...
...poet. To them the classics can hardly be "as dry as the remainder biscuit." With greater freedom of study for upperclassmen an interest aroused by such a series of lectures could easily be followed without detriment to concentration. Indeed, any revival of interest in classics when based upon their direct appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra...
...part of history. Judged ethically it may not be to his credit, but from results his actions were certainly justified; for in the two Balkan Wars he doubled the territory of Greece. After King George was succeeded by his son Constantine, Venizelos' power dwindled, because he found himself in direct opposition to the pro-German royal policies; but as leader of opinion he was always powerful...
Several large oil portraits, mostly of the artist's family, are unusual for their direct and simple handling of subject and color. Among them is a portrait of his wife and young daughters, entitled Emma and Her Children, which was a prize winner at the recent Corcoran exhibition in Washington (TIME...