Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty of Arts & Sciences. Educational machinery ground out of this vote a plan. Instead of attending lectures the two and one half week period before mid-year examinations, the students will read books. These books selected by appropriate professors, will be supplied the library in quantities; will have direct bearing on the studies of the earlier term; direct bearing on the examinations. Students will be expected (but not required) to remain in Cambridge for the period. Beyond laboratory work in science courses and other exceptional appointments such as conferences with tutors, they will be unrestrained. Behind this experiment lies...
...Commonwealth." Its constitution said: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." It would make only one bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses of the I. W. W. constitution were erased. The "one big union" motif is all that remains. Wobblies...
...blood and breeding of a Howard* are not compatible with direct censure of a "Big Bill" Thompson; but the direction of Sir Esme's lance was evident when he commenced to tilt, thus: "We have heard so much lately from another place of the danger of British propaganda in this country that I was beginning to wonder whether the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known...
...attempt has been made, so far as practicable, to confine the reading to a few works of great intrinsic value. Lists of the assignments have been for two weeks in the possession of the tutors, who are in this way enabled to direct the work of their students in preparation for the Reading Period...
...Sultan. ". . .Long Live the Sultan." And so upon the day his father was buried with the full Moslem rights of Morocco and the full Christian rites of France, Sultan Mulai Mohammed, as he will be known, stepped under the Imperial sunshade to direct the destinies of his native land-under the aegis of the Republican French, who are now expected to have a freer hand than ever in the administration of their greatest protectorate...