Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Direct Light...
...your issue of Oct. 25, on p. 41, col. 3, a clear implication, if not a direct statement, is made to the effect that indirect lighting was invented in Germany by Bauhaus workmen...
...Justice Brandeis' saying about the height of trees there is no provision for a limit on how far trees should sink their roots into the ground or how wide they should spread. If he has never before exerted the direct influence upon U. S. life that he may be expected to exert henceforth, a case could be made to prove that Louis Dembitz Brandeis has indirectly influenced the trend of U. S. political thought and action as much as the most influential of his colleagues...
...proposals, which were released in New York on Sunday, proceed from the principles that 'the health of the people is a direct concern of the government," that a national public health policy for all the population should be formulated, and that the four groups concerned with giving medical care are the federal, state, and local governments, and private organizations...
...student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several contributions...