Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusk falls on the Yard tonight, the first of the spring concerts by the Glee Club will be underway. Promptly at seven o'clock, G. Wallace Woodworth, who has been substituting for Dr. Davison this year, will mount the steps of Widener to direct the singers in their program...
...unanimous decision, the Freshman debating team is declared victorious in the third annual encounter with the Yale 1912 men held in the New Lecture Hall. Harvard defends the affirmative side of the question, Resolved: That the United States senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people...
...Newark-Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this was to the Fourth City can be outlined briefly: It reduced Detroit-New York passenger fare more than under that in effect over the next-best air routeing. It has carried some 1,900 eastbound passengers out of Detroit in less than a year...
...Missouri artist: "To the conservatives he is a Red; to the radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit to touch the purists, Methodists and doctrinaries. . . . Benton's art, apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone, Mr. Craven recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this...
...Reeves and his Fo'cas'le Orchestra, direct from the Fo'cas'le at Marble-head and consisting of 12 pieces including a male vocal trio, will furnish the music for the affair. Tickets are priced at $3.00 for couples, and $2.00, instead of $2.50 for stags, as was originally decided...