Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such an extent that Cleveland was elected to the slogan: "No North, no South, no East, no Cornwallis-West!" Propaganda, a very vague term, is quickly laid at the door of the foreign envoy, and public opinion like a Frankenstein turns without warning upon anyone who has tried to direct...
...paying his taxes. All in all, from start to finish, it appears that a vindictive society is out to "get" any attempts to break away from its ranks. The deserter is labelled A. W. O. L. and his efforts, instead of meeting with appreciation, find only derision or direct and vigorous disapproval...
What is even more interesting to us we are accustomed to accept with a shrug of the shoulders what "has always been that way" is the fact that tennis was a gambling game and was played extensively about the Mediterranean. (A direct offspring is still played in Cuba and Mexico as Jaialai). None of the modern equipment was necessary. The players knocked a ball with their hands over a mound of earth, or some such obstacle, and settled their debts on the spot. It is barely possible that desperate matches are played on the Jarvis courts for sodas...
...greatest problems that confronts astronomers at the present time is an accurate knowledge of the distances of stars. From the earliest times, the relative positions of stars or their apparent directions in space have been observed and measured with increasing accuracy. Before anything definite could be learned, however, as to the actual structure of the sidereal universe in which the earth plays its ultra-microscopic part, the actual distance to many of the brighter stars had to be measured. When Copernicus promulgated the heliocentric theory in 1543 through the publication of his epoch-making book. 'De Revolution-ibus Orbium Coelestium...
...management. Generous grants of land, subsidies, and guarantees of its loans had not availed to make the road a financial success, and since it seemed that the expenditure of government money on its behalf was destined to continue indefinitely, it was only natural that the government should finally take direct control of the expenditure of the funds it was furnishing. Incidentally it is very doubtful if the former private management was as efficient as the present government management...