Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy to accept from the fighting Fujiwara Clan a phenomenally...
...protest or hard feeling has arisen on either side as a result of this dispute; it is simply a question of which method is the correct one. Only a high tribunal can settle issues involving a direct difference of opinion as to the interpretation of existing laws. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is the supreme court of boxing, and must therefore be consulted in this matter. Harvard and Yale must agree to accept the opinion of this body and allow it to stand as a precedent for future boxing decisions...
Malcolm Farmer, Eli Athletic Director, apparently in direct opposition to the 1936 National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules, claims that a boxing decision is decided by adding up the scores given by the two judges and the referee and not on a two to one basis. Thus he maintains that the decision in the Olney-Huffman bout in New Haven Saturday was correct...
There is little imminent danger of a war in Europe as a direct result of Hitler's movement of troops into the Rhineland, said William L. Langer '15, associate professor of History, in an interview yesterday...
Wouldn't you know that Walter Lippmann would come out with his "high-times" and "needs-public-attentions" and "this-is-so-obvious-that-it ought-not-to-need-sayings" in direct, open opposition to Senator Black? I've not liked that young man much since his New Republic and Nation days...