Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of scientists, financed by the Rockefeller Institute, have been secretly carrying on important chemical research work for three months in an out of the way corner of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory, it was revealed yesterday in a survey of the grounds. Under the direction of Assistant Professor of Chemistry George B. Kistiakowsky, these men, veiled in secrecy and unwilling to divulge their plans, have completed a complicated mass of apparatus, that it is hoped will measure in a more direct and accurate manner the amount of heat evolved in a chemical change, and expect to be several years...
Professor Kistiskowsky explains the value of the expected discoveries by likening them to a person calculating the distance between Boston and New York by direct measurement, while he describes the old methods that he hopes to replace as the same as a person measuring the distance between Boston and New York by going around the world...
Sixth, a balancing of the American budget by the setting up of no further appropriations that are in the nature of direct grants, with the exception of relief appropriations for subsistence. All other advances of money should be on a loan basis. American industries should be given loans directly by the R. F. C. unless it is intended to modify the securities law and permit a return to private investment financing...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
...loomed, should the new "Government" grow obstreperous. Chances of this were good. Adjoining Fukien on the west is "China's Soviet Sore Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander...