Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill by Senator Watson extending to March 1929 the life of the Federal Radio Commission, enlarging its power over "chain hookups" and direct radio advertising; sent it to the House, postponing confirmation of appointees to the Commission until the House should act on the bill...
...work, which is to start next autumn, will be under the joint direction of the Hall executors and the faculties of the two universities. This equitable distribution of supervision cannot fail to promote an exchange of scholars and students profitable to East and West; Chinese culture will be studied through the direct medium of the Chinese tongue, and the American methods of research will in a similar manner be transmuted to Peking...
Yenching University, better known as Peking University, principally supported by American benefactions, has a strong staff of Chinese on its Faculty and an established place in Chinese life. Situated just outside the city of Peking, it offers the student of Sinology unusual opportunity for direct contact with his materials. Courses at Yenching and Harvard will be so correlated that work done at either University will count toward advanced degrees...
...Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing total...
...Markels will make the trip to Cambridge and personally direct the music. Although he has not supplied the music for Junior Dances in some time, in 1914 he was a frequent visitor to Cambridge, and in that and the years immediately preceding played for the affair...