Word: direction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams offered no direct reason for the University's move to keep Lamont open other than its "popularity with undergraduates" since the January opening and a "general demand for use of Lamont for the Summer School." No special student fee will be assessed; the $10,000 cost will simply be added to the School's budget...
Male Swarming. Most mosquitoes are less direct. Their mating habits center around a curious custom that scientists call "swarming." Hundreds of males gather 'in a dim-lit space, whirling around & around one another, emitting a low hum. This, according to one theory, excites and attracts the females. Certainly any female that comes near the swarming males is never the same again. Some observers claim to have seen the same female join the same swarm repeatedly...
...other hand, if the informant was connected with the FBI, he was acting in direct violation of the bureau's policy. A New Haven FBI spokesman has said, "We are not allowed to open our records either to private individuals or to civilian institutions...
...absence of snakes in Ireland," writes a young professor in the current Scientific American, "is the direct outcome of the Pleistocene geography of the British Isles...
...that coming from a man named Deevey, and him a redhead, even though he is assistant professor of biology at Yale? The absence of snakes in Ireland, as anyone knows (whether their name just happens to be Kelly, O'Flaherty, Dunne or O'Rourke), is the direct outcome of the fact that 1,500 years ago the good St. Patrick himself stood on a hill in the Galty Mountains and ordered the vipers away...