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Word: directness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

...Pertinax," foreign editor of the Echo de Paris, announced last week that orders for the massacre of Guernica came direct from Hermann Wilhelm Goring, anxious to show the unconvinced German general staff what his air force could do. No source for this interesting theory was given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Babies, Bombs & Battleships | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...West's most important cities, with some 300,000 inhabitants. But not until 1934 did it succeed in getting on a transcontinental railroad. That year, with a wild barbecue and great civic jubilation, Denver finally holed through the Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide, got a direct train route to the East.* Meanwhile, all other major U. S. cities were taking places in the spreading network of U. S. airlines and Denver once more found itself shortchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Denver on the Map | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...concertmaster is to an orchestra what the stroke oar is to a crew. He sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: NBC's Stroke | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...little experience, no matter how high he may rank in the development and teaching of legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services, one can ask "Is he fitted to teach and to direct the teaching of lawyers?" For Harvard, besides its function as a laboratory for new thought and a reservoir for the preservation of old, ought also to be a training school in the practice of law by young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANDING ON LANDIS | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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