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Word: directs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came clear. One was that the U.S. and Nationalist China could not assure the supply of beleaguered Quemoy without massive ae rial bombardment of Red artillery positions on the Chinese mainland. The other was that, for all their bluster, the Chinese Communists could not hope to capture Quemoy by direct assault in the teeth of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Facts & a Symbol | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light. On earth these electrons would get nowhere; they would be captured immediately by atmospheric atoms. On the airless moon the electrons could be collected by a wire mesh. Flowing out of the mesh, they would form a direct electric current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunar Electron Farm | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Spofford attributed a slight increase in freshman enrollment in the program to the tense international situation, a direct contrast to last year's talk of military cutbacks and a suspension of the draft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFROTC Eases Requirements in New Curriculum | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...policy of "athletics for all" had been announced in 1919, when compulsory PT was instituted for freshmen. Seven years later the University granted real recognition to inter-collegiate athletics, and assumed a measure of direct control over the heretofore autonomous program. In 1926, William J. Bingham '16 was made the first Director of Athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Boston Game' to Ivy Agreement | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...excluded from agency management unless he brought up the original idea. The outgoing manager, in conjunction with the director of Student Employment, can nominate a successor for the approval of the Board of Directors. However, since nine of the fifteen directors are graduates now in business and without direct College contact, approval is only rubber-stamp...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The HSA: Older, Wiser--and Bigger | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

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