Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Case of the Cautious Coquette, Erie Stanley Gardner's 61st crime novel, is a good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover...
...Teaching Fellows will direct a new program designed to increase the effectiveness of first-year law instruction by aiding beginning students to gain a better grasp of basic legal processes and by improving their methods of study...
...Farrand, Thayer David, and Robert Fletcher '50 will head "The Tempeat" cast. Albert Marre 1G will direct and Miles Morgan '50, Jerry Kilty '50, William West '49. Naomi Raphacison, Radcliffe '50, and Judy Haskell, Radcliffe '50, will play supporting roles...
Originally, H-442 proposed to deprive any educational institution in the Commonwealth of its tax exemption privileges if it employed an advocate of "atheistic communism" on its faculty. During hearings before the General Court Education Committee the phrasing of H-442 was changed to direct it toward those who preached the "overthrow of the government by force or violence" rather than proponents of communism...
...arms aid now would be a serious shock to direct Russian-American relations, which seem to be picking up slightly. Russia could probably find herself psychologically able to deal with a billion-and-a-half dollars worth of war material when it was controlled by one country 3000 miles, away; when distributed through a disjointed group of very conceivably irresponsible countries, 300 miles distant the guns and planes can be both inflammatory and an efficient block to negotiation. It is pretty shortsighted to entirely rule out possible negotiations designed to case Russian and American tension. If we deposit a huge...