Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision reached at the secret meeting was, of course, not published; but the main question discussed, it was understood, was that of the rival claim of Prince Wizamosky, who says he is a direct descendant of Ivan the Terrible...
...Senator's speech was approximately the same length as the President's message, but it dealt with fewer subjects and at greater length with these. There is no question that it was an exceedingly able speech?direct, forceful, well organized, rhetorically polished. A condensation follows...
...might reflect upon the American Administration there, should be inquired into carefully. ... It appears very evident to me from letters received daily that Captain Wood used his name and that of his family to dispose of oil stock to private holders, and while such an inquiry has no direct bearing on the conduct of affairs in the Philippines it is eminently proper that Congress should make an investigation...
...will do by members of the Bloc National, which leans toward the Right without taking in the Royalists, and to which M. Poincaré belongs. His answers were found unsatisfactory, with the result that the leaders of the Block National went over his head and approached President Millerand direct, as it was the latter who, with ex-Premer Clemenceau, founded the Bloc in 1919, when Millerand made his famed Ba-Ta-Clan speech (so named from the Paris theatre in which the speech was delivered) which laid down the objects of the Bloc...
...discoveries of Professor Harlow Shapley direct attention to that indescribably enormous void which exists outside and around the comparatively modest solar system of which the earth is one of the lesser planets. Man has always been extremely egotistical in his consideration of the universe; for centuries it was popularly supposed that the earth was the largest, and in fact the only independent body. The sun and moon, mere lamps for the convenience of humanity, passed round and under the earth, sometimes through great caverns and archways, sometimes between the legs of a giant turtle, on whose back rested a huge...