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Word: directness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Immigration Service. He pleaded that it was political persecution to send them back to Poland or Rumania, or back to Cuba to starve. However their case was decided, they would get no help from a strict reading of the U.S.'s muddled immigration laws. There was no direct provision in the statutes for Woloski or the Hersjus and thousands like them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...when he came to Canada looking for clients. Five years later he was on their payroll. Since then Susaeta has made two trips a year through the hemisphere, has sold Holsteins from Puerto Rico to Argentina. Venezuela and Uruguay are his steadiest customers. Elsewhere sales have increased in direct ratio to urbanization, which has boosted the demand for milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Los Holsteinos | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...secure wider distribution, he binds parts of his publications as separate volumes and sells them individually, relying on direct-mail advertising and an erratic flow of mimeographed news-letters to push his sales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College's Cold Shoulder Welcomes Sargent Blasts | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Warm southerly winds from the vicinity of Bermuda, theoretically caused by the sun spots, and bare ground in much of the New England area are the direct causes of the balmy weather here, Brooks explained. "If there were snow on the ground it would reflect the sun's rays but since the ground has been largely bare this winter it tends to absorb heat from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sun Spots May Be Villain in Winter's Freakish Weather | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...School's department of Legal Medicine for a careful check following his autopsy last Tuesday night. The analysis was rushed by Alan R. Mortiz, Francis Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, and last night he and Dow made a final examination in which they specified the "barbiturate poisoning" as direct cause for death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Analysis Proves Pollano Committed Suicide with Pills | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

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