Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They proposed, for example, that in hygiene classes pupils be taught how the sex impulse and its control affects the nervous system. In physical education courses they should learn 1) that direct sex experience is not necessary for health, 2) that adolescents can find other outlets for their energies. By frank discussion of literature (e.g., The Scarlet Letter, Idylls of the King), they may be enlightened about sex as a motive in general human conduct. Sex may raise its head in girls' home economics classes: "The teacher has an opportunity to bring up . . . the effects produced on the feelings...
...interview, the authority on international law described the recent move by American shipping firms as "hypocrisy," and said, "It constitutes a direct challenge to the Germans to get these ships, and is playing with just the kind of dangerous incident we have been trying to avoid...
Office in London; the Foreign Office appealed to Ambassador Joe Kennedy. Resourceful Joe sent a cable direct to General Motors building at the World's Fair. A pressagent there called Lady Baldwin at the Waldorf (cost, 5?), told her to come right out, he'd see she was well taken care...
...direct result of the decreased activity of the tutoring schools, the Boylston, Reading Room has been overcrowded during the past few weeks, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, Director of the Library, revealed yesterday...
...technique of his art was concerned but also in regard to the emotional compactness of the entire artistic production. Bakst's designs for scenery and costume were unique in that every element (motif, color and content) was harmoniously combined in one complete impression. Colors used by him were in direct accord with the music of each particular ballet; and the line pattern supplemented the style of each respective dance...