Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admission of Egypt to the League," said he, "sets the seal upon her independence." What he did not say was that with her Dominions and protectorates represented in Geneva, Britain now had eight votes she can direct or control...
...than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed to their telephones to get in touch with their home capitals...
According to Valencia: as the Palma-bound air-raiders passed overhead, the Deutschland suddenly opened fire with its 14 anti-aircraft guns. The Leftist planes circled, dove, dropped twelve bombs. Four scored direct hits...
Second concerns the question of ink and handwriting. It would, of course, be ridiculous to think of bringing a different color ink to class for each question. So we will direct our attention to the handwriting. It would be too difficult for a student to concentrate on answering a question, keeping an eye on the next man's paper, trying to look innocent, and also changing his handwriting for each question...
...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...