Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor circulation, principal cause of cold feet, may be produced by spinal lesions which weaken the nerve and blood supply to the feet, or it may be caused locally by direct pressure upon nerves and blood vessels from badly designed or ill-fitting shoes."-Osteopath Philip Spence of White Plains...
Dame Laura's book shows off her direct, robust sincerity. A product of her childhood, she tells a story of much violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair...
...catalogs do not go direct from printing plant to consumer, but to branch offices, of which Sears has ten, Ward eleven. There they are mailed out to old customers, new ones who ask for them...
...limited way," a road following hydraulic principles by "delivering traffic as in a sealed conduit past all conflicting eddies." It has four elements: 1) A dividing strip down the road's centre ; 2) over and underpasses with cloverleaf detours at every intersection; 3) denial to abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley right-of-way. Even...
Gimnar's Daughter, one of her first novels, was published in 1909, when Sigrid Undset was 27. A brief, direct story, melodramatic as the folk tales on which it is modeled, it lacks both the involved psychological analyses that weight down her modern fiction, the realistic details that distinguish her historical romances. Since it is laid in the reign of King Olav, when Norway was undergoing the transition from paganism to Christianity, it also reveals Sigrid Undset's profound religious feeling, is an early expression of the devotion that was eventually to lead her to write thesis novels...