Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time I would like to direct loud cries of scorn at Mr. G. T. Overman whose bigoted, unfair and illogical letter was printed in the same issue. His wife is probably a meek, browbeaten little woman who "makes his life-and "gives him nothing but a pain in the neck'' by occasionally asking him not to swear so much...
...definite view which we have frequently expressed before, that destruction of the so-called weapons of offense would be an abdication and desertion of the League of Nations. . . . It would seem illogical and dangerous that it should, instead of being prepared to take over the responsibility for existing weapons, direct that those weapons should be destroyed, only to find later that it is necessary to give financial assistance to any state unjustly attacked...
...clattering wooden geta the little old men who act as newsboys in Tokyo ran through the streets last week shouting an extra. It was the first direct word that either Japan or China had had of an event that seeped to the rest of the world several days earlier: truce and cessation of Chinese-Japanese hostilities in North China...
...looks redder at sundown than at noon because its light traverses a thicker layer of air at evening and is scattered by more particles in the atmosphere. The light lost by scattering reappears as the blue of the sky. It exactly compensates for the redness of direct sunlight...
...Morgan fiddled with a heavy gold watch chain, beamed upon the committee as the show began. At the opening he was permitted to read a prepared statement. For about 15 minutes he read rapidly a definition and defense of private banking. A ring on his finger glinted gold. Only direct allusion to his own company was the fact that he has always been "averse to his partners' holding directorships in other banking institutions but he consents because "the only way people can be helped is the way they wish to be helped." Said he in conclusion: "I state without...