Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assault was justified, it is not now. Certain professors, like Mr. Hillyer, are capable judges of all forms of writing. Others who feel their jurisdiction limited, such as Mr. DeVoto, exclude certain forms, as he does poetry. Whether the student be a specialist or a genius budding in all directions, a little foresight is bound to direct him into the right course...
...speakers, though representing opposite sides of the issue, have all been in more or less direct contact with Ethiopia: Lieutenant Colonel Francis T. Colby, late Major in the Regular Army and sportsman and traveller; H. E. Signer Daniele Vare, formerly Italian Minister to China and former member of Political Section, League of Nations Secretariat; Peter Koinage, formerly resident of Kenya, South Africa, whose father is a tribal leader of three million people Hiving near the Ethiopian border; Captain G. F. Sherwood, reserve Officer in the British Army who commanded native regiments in the German East African Campaign...
With the first concert scheduled on November 14 in Sanders Theatre, the Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra will include in its program Minuets of Beethoven, and selections by Hayden, and Saint Saens. Ernst Hoffmann will direct the first concert and the one following on November...
...Havelock Ellis and Bernard Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly among women. A period of acute economic distress made a profound influence on him, led him to declare, "Heaven must begin on earth soon, or Hell will...
...automatic instrument that will broadcast a report of weather conditions direct from the upper air as it hangs from a sounding balloon has been perfected at the University's Meteorological Observatory at Blue Hill...