Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorized by Field Marshal von Mackensen to make the following direct statement from...
...action: "The children are the most important principals in the [Kourim] case. When this couple ran away at their age it was a gay adventure. . . . When the first child was one year old some court should have given them a lesson in birth control. . . . Their trouble is a direct reflection on the law of this state. The courts are forbidden to give out birth control information, the very thing that would have saved this couple from this situation...
...about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct interpretation is that of a shift in the earth's instantaneous axis of rotation. As a last resort it may be necessary to consider movement in the earth's crust, although Professor Stetson...
...history is to be readily comprehended, the mastery of regional geography is of prime necessity; one is naturally the direct complement of the other. Yet, whereas history is read and inwardly digested by scholars in all walks of life, geographical truths, which in contrast ring out their utter simplicity, are sadly neglected. Perhaps it is because of their relatively simple nature that they are regarded as unimportant for maturer minds; when one becomes a man, one must put away childish things...
...much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last week the thoughts of David of Windsor turned repeatedly upon Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18, dark eyed and blooming daughter of the Marquis Douro, direct descendant of the great Duke of Wellington...