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Word: directness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There would be no problem, were the situation once fully comprehended, for if the teaching of specified sections of the first three mathematics courses were more static, a section structure including one section especially designed for direct application of the principles taught could be evolved. This sort of solution would necessitate a modification in the structure of the mathematics department which would not be wholly desirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCENTRATION EDITORIAL | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...York City. In England, where the office of the European distributor is located, the price is everywhere 9d. (18?). On the Continent a few shopkeepers charge what they can get, unfortunately are not subject to TIME'S regulation. European readers who wish may have TIME sent to them direct from the Circulation Office at 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill. for $7 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...need of more ingenuity than his opponent in conducting his column. Not being the incumbent, he could not fill space by telling how he helped perform such municipal miracles as supplying "230 million gallons of pure water" daily to Los Angeles. Columnist Ford frequently ended each column with a direct question. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Column Campaign | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...second largest island in the Danish group (Zealand is biggest) and Jutland. Though Danish motor roads are excellent, and railroads (50% Government-owned, the rest with the State as majority stockholder) are efficient, traveling in Denmark means a lot of ferrying. The new bridge, on the direct line between Copenhagen and London, cuts down by nearly 50% the time of the journey from Copenhagen to Esbjerg, Denmark's only important port in the North Sea. home of a large fleet of fishing vessels and westbound steamship lines. Irrepressibly ambitious about bridges, Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Silver Sanity | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Parade" is the title of the show which will be staged by the classmates, wives, sons, and daughters of 1912 at their twenty-fifth Reunion. Hans W. Miller will direct the spectacle at the Rindge Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classmates, Wives, Sons, Daughters of 1912 to Stage Gala Show at Twenty-Fifth Reunion Party | 5/15/1937 | See Source »

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