Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...super-seriousness that marked all our actions was depressing. ... I have come to the conclusion that the best plan for the United States to follow next year is to select a man with a youthful viewpoint, a man possessing international background, to direct the team. ... A man like Frank Hunter or Vinny Richards, for I see no logical objection to a professional ... ; or Dick Williams, if the U. S. L. T. A. insists on an amateur...
Twentieth Century is the first important new producing company formed in Hollywood in four years. It is a direct result of last spring's bank holiday and the consequent studio shutdown. When all Hollywood employes were on half-salary or less in March, Production Chief Darryl Francis Zanuck of Warner Brothers promised his underlings to restore their pay on the date set by the Cinema Academy...
From the humble beginnings of John Warren and Benjamin Waterhouse, one hundred and fifty years ago today, the Harvard Medical School has developed, in close step with the profession it perpetuates, into an institution whose direct services to mankind are among the chief glories of the University. Just as it has given its knowledge and facilities to Boston, so have its graduates applied its teachings in nation-wide practice, its spirit in epoch-making discoveries...
...mete out justice to eleven Army cadets, confessed conspirators in the assassination of "Pacifist" Premier Ki Inukai (TIME, May 23, 1932). Not only for this are the cadets national heroes. They also plotted a coup to tear up the Japanese constitution, oust "grafting politicians" and restore "direct Imperial rule." Clearly the judges, who might themselves be assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with relief to the August Spirit of the Meiji Emperor (1868-1912). He gave Japan her Constitution. In his long...
...Woodworth and students in his course will direct the chorus, and the first meeting will be held Wednesday. October 4 at 7.30 o'clock in Lawrence Hall, room 20. Voice trials will not be required for membership...