Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtain-raiser for the regatta, which is run off on the Weeks Bridge-Metropolitan Beach course, will be the wherry race. Direct descendants of Noah's Ark, the homely, hardy dugouts usually offer the most unpredictable and interesting contest...
Advocates of a moderate middle-of-the road stand against Communism won out over exponents of direct action in a hotly-contested election last night to name new officers of the University Chapter of the American Veterans' Committee...
...ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll preferences, the U.S. would now have universal military training, price control, rationing, direct election of the President and a 49th state (Hawaii...
...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, whose baton leads both the Band and the Orchestra, will direct the musical frolickings...