Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...given this year to the author of the best essay on the subject of "Efficient Billboard Regulation," the topic selected by the council of the National Municipal League. The competition is open to undergraduates registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government...
...office of the Board of Assessors. A. K. Reading, a lawyer and the manager of Mayor Rockwood's campaign for mayor, and Representative K. P. Hill were the witnesses heard today. Reading was examined and cross-examined at length, but Hill's direct examination was brief, and he was not cross-examined. Herbert Parker, senior counsel for the defence, rested after Hill left the stand and called no witnesses in rebuttal. Arguments in the case began...
...friend N. W. Edwards.' On the opposite page is a statement showing that it was given by Lincoln to his law-partner, W. H. Herndon, who in turn gave it to Mr. Fields on January 1, 1867, so that it comes to the College library by a direct descent. Into this copy Mr. Fields pasted a long letter from Lincoln, written at Washington on February 15, 1848, discussing the right of the President to act without consulting Congress, in time of war or threatening international complication. The other volume of Pope is a copy of the first edition...
...best coaches possible have been secured to take charge of the various branches of athletics. Mr. Waters, Physical Director of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., will have charge of the swimming instruction; Coach Anderson, formerly world's middleweight champion wrestler, will direct the work of the wrestlers; Coach Leslabay will instruct the fencers, and Coach Foley, the boxers. Squads will be so arranged that each man may secure training in all of these divisions...
...membership in the class, and those who joint will receive the best of coaching. Mr. Waters, Physical Director of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., will be in charge of the swimmings; Coach Anderson, formerly world's middleweight champion wrestler, will coach the wrestling squad; Coach Leslabay will direct the fencers, and Coach Foley the boxing. It will be arranged so that a man may enter all of these divisions...