Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France's No. 1 battlefield honor is the Médaille Militaire. By a curious quirk, only generals commanding armies, noncommissioned officers and enlisted men can win the green-and-yellow-ribboned decoration, the former for their strategic vision, the latter for their bravery in direct action. Though the French War Ministry has no record of the number awarded since 1852, some 300,000 recipients are alive today...
...killing current may be as small as two-tenths of an ampere if it is the 60-cycle alternating current common in most U. S. communities. One ampere is the minimum killing amperage of direct current which Mr. Ferris investigated. In all cases the voltage was relatively unimportant...
...common stock, 40 owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, 30 by Humble Oil & Refining, 25 by Standard of Louisiana, a New Jersey subsidiary, five by Carter Oil Co. Export's owners paid all expenses, guaranteed the big preferred stock issues. However, the new bonds are a direct obligation of parent Standard of New Jersey...
...Italian adventure in Ethiopia was a direct threat to the lifeline of the British Empire: control of the Mediterranean. From the beginning British diplomacy held to the dogged belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Loudly His Majesty's Government demanded Sanctions, only to discover that Italy would fight if the League attempted to enforce its orders...
...those in the new environment. Mixed marriages may alter the gestures of the spouses. Even in the same country motor habits are not stable. The British, for example, have not always manifested their present immobility. In Elizabethan times they gestured violently. Dr. Boas' conclusion from all this is direct and simple : motor habits are cultural, not biological...