Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News Department will be expected to gather and write up in suitable form all news pertaining to the University, and in addition to obtain interviews and special articles from prominent men, both on college and on outside subjects. They will also have a chance to learn in an indirect way something of the mechanical end of publishing a newspaper--that is, proofreading, linotyping, make-up and press work. No previous journalistic training on preparatory or high school publications is necessary...
...might try their hand at "reserving". Negotiations would thus extend from the council-table, through the ratifying bodies, to a grand international committee of conference designed to smooth over the objections which the various parliaments had enacted. This procedure would be open diplomacy openly arrived at but it is indirect, slow and uncertain. The Senate will help to avoid it by giving to the present treaties its unconditioned approval...
...college wants money; if we can put together a winning football team it will help to get it. The alumni want the college to win and are willing to pay to see it win. Then follows what we are all familiar with--the scouting, the persuading, the proselyting, the indirect buying, which is so common that we are no longer disturbed, by it. It becomes then not a competition in football but a competition in scouting where money talks...
...that a three inch battery would be taken to Waverly this week and installed in connection with the pistol range now in use on the old R.O.T.C. maneeuver grounds. As soon as the battery is put into working condition, and after a short elementary practice, work in direct and indirect laying will be started. Major Goetz is planning to have sub-caliber shooting almost entirely in order to give the men practice in the use of heavy artillery...
...inadequacy of the excess profits tax as means of raising revenue has led to the widespread advocation of the sales tax as a substitute. Its exponents point out that it is the only form of indirect taxation available for further extension; that it would easily afford a large income at a low rate: and that because of its wide distribution it would fall upon no single group. They point out further that the plan has worked well in other countries, notably in Canada and the Philippines. Their discussion of the subject is not a little complicated by the fact that...