Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leet, who makes a hobby of collecting earthquakes, revealed that the atomic bomb added something new to seismology that has heretofore been missing in ordinary earth rumblings. "Until the bomb observations," Leet explained, we were more or less working in the dark on one particular type of earthquake: the direct vertical shock...
Wages. Most industries and most companies have adequate leeway within which to grant substantial wage increases. These increases will have a direct effect in increasing consumer demand to the high levels needed. Substantial wage increases are good business for the country because capacity production means an active citizenry enjoying the benefits of democracy under our free enterprise system...
Protestantism, which holds that each individual must seek direct comprehension of God's word, necessarily insisted on the increase of education to that end. Protestantism powered the drive for schools and colleges of the American colonies and the young American republic...
...Thus the direct return from a detective story, however good, is under $6,000 (10% to 15% royalty on 20,000 $2 books), as compared to perhaps $15,000 on a popular novel (10% to 15% royalty on 40,000 $2.50 books...
None Better. At a press conference in the Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You as well as ourselves have a lively concern for the territorial integrity of North America. You wouldn't sit back and see Florida taken any more than we would see one of your provinces taken...