Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong points here are well built, well defended, so much so that neutral observers agree that Generalissimo Franco's old scheme, to drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such fighting as takes place consists of open guerrilla raids. Many scrubby villages do not know for weeks at a time...
...course, says Professor Abbott, is to provide students with "irreducible minimums" of information upon every phase of picture making and its history, thenceforth to direct individual study along lines of special interest...
Helen Wills began playing tennis during the War when her father, a Berkeley, Calif, physician, went to a French base hospital and left his 15-ounce racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct little girl, she took it for granted from the start that winning was synonymous with trying. She did not revise that assumption until she was 16 and found herself facing the great Moila Bjurstedt Mallory in the final for the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills. Hard-driving Mrs. Mallory won in straight sets. Next year Helen Wills played in all the major preliminary tournaments...
This microvoltmetre must be used with special electrodes. When properly set up and adjusted the apparatus indicates only minute direct electrical currents generated by living creatures, and shuts out the long known alternating currents which physiologists use to determine the condition of the heart, the energy of the biceps, the well-being of nerves...
...expedition is a direct result of the discussions arising at the International Symposium on Early Man, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in celebration of its 125th anniversary last March...