Word: directing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department opened direct negotiations with Colombia in an effort to persuade the Colombian Government to oust 20-odd German pilots, said to be German reserve officers, from service on the Scadia Airline, whose routes fly close by the Panama Canal...
...given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...
Mellen's appointment completes the trio of coaches who direct the destinies of the Jayvee gridders. Henry Lamar, boxing mentor who hails from Virginia, is head coach, and Floyd Stahl, baseball coach, directs Jayvee backfield operations...
...behind a cloud. He opened fire at a man on the conning tower and let go a flight of bombs. These hit the water ahead of the submarine, which was diving. The explosions blew it back to the surface and "the nearest bomb of my second salvo was a direct hit on the submarine's port side. There was a colossal explosion and her whole stern lifted out of the water. She dived into the sea at an angle...
...Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches." This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* published this week by George Russell Harrison, California-born professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In the long run," says he, "digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting, but more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped...