Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament to embroil us with Germany." Thus wrote the Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge, retired dean of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, in the Church of England Newspaper. When the fuming British press demanded proofs, the lemoncholy divine admitted: "I have no direct knowledge...
...restless and tireless as Vincent ("Ben") Bendix. Mercurial but cold-eyed, many-sided in interest but direct in purpose, convivial but shrewd, he burst into the automotive industry nearly 30 years ago with the first practical self-starter. Today few U. S. automobiles drive the roads, few airplanes fly the skies, that do not have his gadgets in them: Bendix starters, radios, brakes, Stromberg as well as Zenith carburetors, Scintilla magnetos...
...Nazis early realized that direct control over writers was troublesome and unwise, preferred to make non-Nazi editors and publishers responsible for what they print. Seldom is an attempt made to tell writers what to write or not to write. But worried publishers are quick to submit any doubtful work to the local party official. This gives the Nazis all the control they need. Book News (published in Berlin) now prints a green flimsy supplement headed "Expert Opinion." In one section are listed books to push, and in the other books to soft-pedal...
Like any other businesslike airline, K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) likes to run from city to city by the most direct route. But last week its new special London-Warsaw plane service was routed via Copenhagen, Gdynia and south to the Polish capital, avoided the direct route across Germany...
...best letters are brief, direct, factual. The best letter writers are usually women and soldiers, who observe closely, state simply. Worst letter writers are usually writers-who philosophize. Among topflight U. S. letter-writing writers have long been Henry Adams, Henry James, John Hay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Last week readers who could spare the price could look at all the Emerson letters they were ever likely to want, in six good-looking, gilt and salmon-pink volumes. Of these letters, claims Editor Ralph Leslie Rusk, 2,313 have never been printed before...