Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing with these problems, the writer uses a direct and journalistic style; strangely, he has another, a mellower and pleasanter way of treating all that is retrospective in the novel. It is by this method that he rises to respectable heights in description of historic events and persons; the best example of this is the picture drawn of the huddled, broken figure of Wilson beside the hale and hearty Harding as they rode down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol on March 4, 1921. Mr. Anonymous has made the mistake of including in his book too much that is purely personal...
...been Yale's Professor of Public Health, Dr. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow. For custodian of the $1,000,000 the committee organizers chose President Winthrop Williams Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, charitarian brother-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. They picked Economist Harry Haskell Moore, to direct the study...
...ordinary medium of communication between the Corporation and the Overseers, and between the Corporation and the Faculties; to make an annual report to the Overseers on the general condition of the University; to preside on public academic days; to preside over the several Faculties; to direct the official correspondence of the University; to acquaint himself with the state, interests and wants of the whole institution; and to exercise a general superintendence over all its concerns. For the better discharge of these duties, he must live in Cambridge...
...greatest direct benefit from the use of the New Plan, however, as has been pointed out at various times in these columns, is certainly to the schools themselves. With students taking examinations only in their Senior year, rather than for two or three years, as is the case with admission under the Old Plan, a school is not forced to devote so much effort to prepare its students for examinations. Rather the school is enabled to devote itself more completely to the development of sound minds, the underlying factor in making the college years a period of productive development...
...League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared at the ceiling until Mr. Matsuoka sat down and the council recessed...