Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Mr. Leffingwell's immediate duties in J. P. Morgan & Co. will be in connection with the British payment of her U. S. war debt which the firm will handle as fiscal agent for Great Britain. This work will take years to consummate and unnusual financial ability to direct. Mr. Leffingwell's knowledge of official Washington should greatly assist him in this new task...
...subscription or by application of the profits to paying off the present owners. Meanwhile the company, controlled by a joint board of directors, would act as a cooperative marketing agency for the farmers. Mr. George Marcy, President of the Company and expert in grain marketing, would continue to direct the Company's operations for five years...
...perplexity, a perplexity over which many a person stumbles in common speech. How can you answer in one word, yes or no, to the question: " You have no bananas?" Often you will hear someone stammer "yes-no." The answer might reasonably be: " No, we have no bananas," with a direct logical opposite: " Yes, we have no bananas." But the contradiction in the phrase is ludicrous. A foreigner using it at all times and without distinction, it becomes grotesquely funny, the much more so because it catches at a perplexity in the structure of the language, at a perplexity with which...
...tale of gypsies-Continental gypsies who travel in equine caravans and join battle with their Tartar enemies in the final reel. There is much hard riding, nasty leering, passionate gypsy love and gaily colored gypsy skirtings. Its merit is far above that of the average cinema. It is simple, direct and moderately entertaining. The meretricious and the tawdry are conspicuously absent. But just where Dorothy Dalton, the heroine, acquired her fame is a knotty problem. She manages in The Law of the Lawless to let her leading man, Charles de Roche, pick the play up and carry it away with...
...Grandgent for his outstanding scholarship and talent; Mr. Morgan for his philanthropy, his loyalty to Harvard, his continual encouragement of what is best in the arts; Bishop Slattery for his services to religion;--these and the others each represent one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise and impartial judge. It must be used not simply as further honor for men who have already won fame, but as the reward of greatness in the world's most honorable activities...