Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weakness in the center of the Providence five enabled the Feslermen to direct their charges down the middle of the court and supported by a strong defense keep the ball in foreign territory. Since long shots were unnecessary even when the visitors went wild towards the end in a series of long passes, the Crimson team chalked up most points in close skirmishes below...
...week foreshadowed by an interview he gave. Arthur Krock, No. 1 Washington correspondent of the New York Times, was admitted to the Presidential presence and given the benefit of a pontifical discussion of the issue by the man most interested. Mr. Krock managed to get one paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left it to Lincoln.-If I cannot, in the brief time given me to attack its deep...
...works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them direct, receiving their messages through a lieutenant...
After addressing the audience, in which representation of the fair sex was weak, as "Lady and Gentlemen," Professor Mather said that the Bill is a direct insult to the Corporation of Harvard, since it considers them incapable of selecting their own faculty without legal aid. He held that oaths do not affect loyalty, but "Loyalties change with external conditions," a theory first expounded by Karl Marx...
...contest, the competition still bears the hall-mark of the Daniel Webster era that engendered it. Of far more practical worth, however, would be prizes in public speaking. A striking witness to the value of drawing up one's own material and presenting it to an audience in direct and straightforward fashion is furnished by the hundred-odd undergraduates enrolled in various public speaking courses, and the many more that engage in debating from time to time. And it is for these men, rather than for mere memorizers, that the prizes should be set up as goal and sea-mark...