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Word: directness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never had an end problem--not since Larry Kelley was a Sophomore. And his flank-mate, Carey, can hold up his own end with marked ability. It is the center of the Eli team that is most vulnerable, and it is between tackles that field general Roberts will direct his running attack. The Elis have fallen repeatedly for the so-called mouse trap plays which rely upon good timing and cross-blocking, two branches of the game that Harlow has emphasized all fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Squad Takes Harvard's Hopes of Big Three Gridiron Title With Them to Yale Today | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

...inspect more than one or two, and often prefer to make their choice on the basis of contacts with friends rather than with regard to tutorial facilities or curricular advantages. In view of this haphazard and unfortunate mode of selection, the formulation of house personalities would seem the most direct solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE PERSONALITY | 11/17/1936 | See Source »

...book with accounts of his family's poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict, but in a subtle resentment at intellectual slights, does Swinnerton reveal the hazards of his literary life. Thus he rails against "sleek, conspiratorial, mean-spirited bigotries," without denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise in the world," against old friends who feel insulted if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Books, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...many a U. S. news publisher wondering if writing and printing an editorial page was worth the trouble. All through the land, voters thumpingly disregarded the editorial politics of an estimated 80% of the nation's daily Press (TIME, Nov. 2). In Chicago an election night mob took direct action against the rabidly anti-Roosevelt Tribune by burning a truckload of its "bulldog" edition, egging its building, smashing plate glass at its Dearborn Street branch. In Manhattan even a pro-New Deal publisher, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, his pockets lined with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Editors' Afterthoughts | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Labor espionage and the more direct methods of fighting unionism are as common in the automobile as in any other big open-shop industry in the U. S. Until the advent of the New Deal, boomtown Detroit was hardly aware that it was in fact open-shop. Its working population had drifted in from rural regions where unions never existed. Indeed, many an automobile worker learned about unions for the first time from the lips of the boss in 1933 when company unionism was budding under NRA's Section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pre-Year Plan | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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