Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headquarters of Japan's General Staff, with its bombproof and gas-proof centre, its direct wires to every military garrison in the Empire, has never been considered exactly unguarded or defenseless. Yet by dawn it, too, had quietly filled up with mustards...
...However it is no easy task to direct the affairs of a mighty modern nation. As your late President Theodore Roosevelt used to say. 'it is the batting average that counts.' This point has been lost sight of by the radical officers...
...aged 2, spontaneously lift her skirts, flounce down a Presbyterian church aisle while her mother's head was bowed solemnly in prayer. As her legs grew longer, Martha Graham was more & more determined to dance, had to be reminded time & again that her mother was a Standish, ninth direct descendant of Pilgrim Miles. When she was 10, the family moved to California, where she saw Ruth St. Denis, then absorbed by the fluent Oriental postures inspired by a cigaret advertisement which she had seen posted in a drugstore window...
Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, will again direct the summer session...