Word: directionable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME, Dec. 26, p. 11: "The Smith plan would require . . . experts to make punishments fit crimes." Has not the trend of criminological thought for at least the past 50 years been toward emphasizing the offender rather than an isolated act, the crime, in determining punishment? All recent developments in the...
With Upton Sinclair announcing a new novel called "Boston", in which one assumes that the foundations of the city will be rocked and shattered, with Elmer Davis asking in Harper's "What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in...
Since 1903 the sole direction of the conduct and policy of the Telegraph has been in the hands of Harry Lawson, Webster Lawson, now Viscount Burnham. His father had managed the property before him, and Lord Burnham has retained the family tone and tempo.
¶ Later in the week, the White House had a musicale all its own- 17th and 18th Century chamber music played from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles...
It is true that if specialization is not modulated by the philosophy of business, or science, or whatever the field may be, the exponent may be a useless cog, or even dangerous as a theoretical bigot. This was the blight, in the form of a superiority complex, to which Dr...