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Word: directness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington on insular business, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico called in the Press, gave them a glowing report on conditions in the island, belittled recent disturbances, ducked any direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Unwanted Freedom | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...speaks Loring B. Andrews '25, instructor in Astronomy, in the May 1 Alumni Bulletin. His thesis is that ultraviolet radiation may affect not only plants, trees, and over a period of years the earth, but also that it has a direct effect on the bodies and minds of humans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Astronomer Ties Up Sunspot Activity With International Crises and Stock Markets | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

Deacon James De Wolf Perry Jr., 27, is the third of his name in direct line to enter the Episcopal Church. Bishop James De Wolf Perry Sr. was born 64 years ago in Germantown, Pa., where his father was a longtime rector. Young Deacon Perry grew up in Providence, in the diocese of which his father has been the urbane, affluent shepherd since 1911. Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, which graduated young James Perry in 1928, sermonized in the Providence Cathedral last week: "You have had the heart of a priest from your boyhood. You were dedicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Father to Son | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Ecstasy" is not an exciting film, but it is a direct and frequently skillful treatment of a theme which is rarely allowed to occupy the place which it deserves in traumatic expression...

Author: By S. M. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

...program appears a new composition by Delaney and an adagio for violin and strings, dedicated to Malcolm H. Holmes, who will direct the program. The rest of the program: Gluck Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Hindemith Funf Stucke Rosetti Symphony in G-Minor Delaney Adagio for violin and strings George K. Mateyo, soloist DeFalla Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breva...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Cambridge Concert For Pierians Tonight In Paine | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

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