Word: directous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...verse of the number is common-place. The "Triolets" have none of that delicacy of turn and sentiment which this particular form of rhyme should exhibit. The other poem of the number is a sonnet upon "Greatness," a word which stands in direct contrast to the lines it heads. The chief features of this sonnet are the absence of poetical imagery and a presence of mixed metaphors...
Resolved, That Congress was justified in passing a bill refunding the direct...
...History of the direct tax of 1861; paid promptly by the loyal states, but collected only in part and with great difficulty in the South: Quar. Jour. Econ...
Best general references: Charles F. Dunbar, "The Direct Tax of 1861," Quart. Jour. Economics, III, 436; Cleveland's veto message, Mar. 2, 1889, Senate Journal, 50th Cong., 2d Sess...
...Charles K. Landis has presented to the University of Pennsylvania a tract of five acres of ground near Sea Isle City, N. J. He proposes to erect a marine aquarium there which will be under the direct charge of the University Biological department...