Word: direction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveler from Washington to Cape Town, Union of South Africa, must journey 11,136 miles if he goes by London; 8,034 miles if he goes direct. To clip 3,102 miles off the diplomatic distance between Washington and Cape Town, to bring the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. into closer relation, steps were taken last week for an exchange of ministers such as the U. S. now conducts with Canada and Irish Free State. The U. S. approved the appointment of Eric H. Louw as South Africa's first envoy to Washington...
...Atlanta is 120% over capacity in inmates at the present time and Leavenworth is 87%, all of which is the cause of infinite demoralization and the direct cause of outbreaks and trouble. . . . Our plans necessitate an expenditure of about $5,000,000 and will comprise some additions and revision of the old prisons and probably a new prison somewhere in the Northeastern States...
Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke responded...
...decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were, as students of government weather reports know,* light snows last winter, early thaws last spring, winds carrying water vapor away from the coasts instead of inland...
...between the sects. Many Protestant preachers realize this but avoid the subject as unpleasant. Many others are busy adding to the confusion. Not so Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, curly-headed, fat-cheeked, dynamic pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. Last week he made one of the direct, unequivocal remarks which distinguish him from so many divines, which make the overflow of his congregations willing to listen to him by radio in the basement of his church in order to earn admission to regular upstairs pews on the following Sunday (TIME...