Word: directional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the Browder attorney supplied a sample of Communist "direct action" by locking himself in a Terre Haute broadcasting booth, reading off the nominee's prepared speech while Chief Yates and some 50 citizens fumed helplessly outside...
Austria's 37-year-old Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, direct descendant of one of the twelve original families of the Holy Roman Empire of antiquity, and today Dictator Mussolini's smooth-cheeked stooge in Austria, has his political ups & downs. One of his "downs" was to be expelled by Chancellor Schuschnigg last May from the Austrian Government in which he had been Vice-Chancellor. Last week he was still commander of the Heimwehr, chief private armed force in the country, and able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders...
First arbiter in this dispute involving 40,000 square miles of territory was Spain's King Alfonso XIII in 1910. He soon admitted that the problem was too difficult for him, suggested "direct negotiations" between the two Republics. After much wrangling they agreed to confer in 1924, pledged themselves to submit to the U. S. President issues on which they could not agree. Now 12 years after this agreement, they have got as far as the White House...
...musician to play the March of the Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist of Bertie Wooster's dazed idolatry, Thank You Jeeves, though sure to disappoint Wodehouse addicts, is still a passably amusing farce. Sample dialog: When Bertie is trying to say that a young lady called at his flat and left without explaining...
...graduate work. There will always be students of university calibre, even according to President Hutchins' standards, who need drilling on elementary work. A total divorce of the two types of institutions of higher learning would greatly hinder, as mass production always will, any possible attention to individual needs. The direct result could only be to retard that "single-minded devotion to the advancement of knowledge" which President Hutchins lauds so highly...