Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents would be able to take their meals and sleep near the location of their particular contest, not only making the trip to Cambridge easier and more pleasant, but also allowing them more time to engage in pre-game practice sessions. The new building could be of even more direct benefit to Harvard if offices for the H.A.A. and for the various intercollegiate sports' managers were included therein, thus doing away with the dingy, cramped quarters these organizations now possess in the basement of the Union...
...last week, curiously tucked away in a maze of advertising exhibits of home furnishings, a little gallery of architectural photographs made browsers perk up. To most features of the Home Beautiful, exemplified in the exhibit by a tasteless miscellany stuffed in fake "modern" interiors, these pictures gave the lie direct. They showed the actual and honestly beautiful buildings of an extraordinary architect, Antonin Raymond of Japan...
...another change "in response to the recommendations of high Air Corps officials," Henry Arnold also took charge of all Air Corps personnel and training (a responsibility previously divided between him and the Chief of Staff) thereby taking direct control of training the new Air Corps which is to increase from 1,638 to 3,203 Regular officers (plus 3,000 Reservists), 21,500 to 45,000 enlisted men within ten years...
...keeping with the Administration's new business appeasement drive, Mr. Wallace's Mr. Perkins proposes to hand over to Business itself the distribution of surpluses. Instead of buying surpluses direct from farmers and doling them out to the needy, FSCC will dole out tickets redeemable for food at any grocery. Grocers would do all the buying and selling, cash the tickets at post offices or other local Government agencies. Families would eventually get enough tickets to increase their food consumption 50%; i.e., a poor family spending $16 a month for food would get $8 in tickets. There would...
...Manhattan, on Washington's birthday, newshawks discovered Elizabeth Washington, onetime vaudeville actress and direct descendant of his brother John Augustine, cheerfully playing a fiddle in Manhattan's WPA Federal Theater. Said she: "There must be thousands of Washington descendants. The family was enormous.* . . . Just say I swing a mean crinoline...