Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he says in part as follows: "As the member of the House of Representatives who introduced in Congress in 1919 a resolution creating the American Legion as a national and quasi governmental organization, and as one familiar with the constitution of the Legion, I must direct your attention to the fact that no individual is eligible for membership in the American Legion except those persons who served in the military or naval services of the United States during the period of the World War, and hold an honorable discharge from such service...
...Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas. Farmers do not know whether their crop is bought by foreigners or by workers who earn their money making goods for export. Only a few exporters can see any direct profit from trade reciprocity, but every farmer and businessman...
...that an uneven balance of power can never be maintained through multi-lateral pacts, unless war be used as an international black-jack to oppress the weaker nation. Belgium, realizing that too close an alignment with France may draw her into war with countries with which she has no direct quarrel, has clear sightedly chosen the independent path...
Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
...theory that a liberal education will make a citizen responsible is attractive, but untrue. The truth is that a student is infected by the enthusiasms of his campus. . . . We arouse interest in science, not on the football field, but in the laboratory, and we may now attempt the same direct approach to social responsibility...