Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Knows. For years, department-store credit managers, income-tax investigators and the parents of the girl engaged to the young man upstairs have come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received at rent-collecting time, at New Year's and for special services. Even the Paris police call on her for information. During the war the Resistance used the concierge as a perfectly positioned spy. Allied airmen shot down over France were passed safely across Paris from one concierge to another...
...Arms aid now would be a serious shock to direct Russian-American relations, which seem to be picking up slightly...
Ibercliff, a graduate student from England will be producer while Samuel V. K. Willson '50 will direct the music. Willson, an Eliot House man, is the only male in the production from outside Winthrop...
Prof. Fletcher did not "play" with any topic. His remarks consisted exclusively of direct quotations from the press. His statement on the indecency of a deliberate war was part of a general criticism of the idea of an unprovoked "preventative war" touted by many irresponsibilities in this country and not, as the CRIMSON article implied, advice to abject surrender in the event of unjustified aggression. John M. Bailey...
...search for speed on the assembly line he has gone from typewriter to electric typewriter to direct dictation and finally to dictating machines. Now he has as many as four secretaries at a time taking the stuff off records, rattles off 6,000 to 7,000 words a day; in a high-speed burst he has hit as much as 235,000 words a month...