Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy their property. . . The people must distinguish between combatting foreign imperialism and attacking foreigners. . . . But we Chinese now have awakened and Shanghai, the greatest commercial centre in the Far East, will become not only a strong base for Chinese nationalism but for world revolution...
...responsibility of Germany for producing the war is indirect rather than direct; neither her government nor her people had the slightest desire for a World War. Instead of dragging Austria into the struggle as most people believed a few years ago, she was dragged in by her ally. That a statesman of Bismarck's strength or Bulow...
...send representatives. There is no good reasons for its not doing so. It is not expected that treaties will be formulated or that any agreements will be entered into or even that the Committee will make any specific recommendations. Its primary object is discussion, and its fruits will be indirect...
...expected to know as much as his father, that "there was a time when a college boy had to wrestle with Greek and Latin he had to report daily on the doings of pious Acneas, with special attention to the accusative as subject of the infinitive in indirect discourse." The boy of today, on the other hand, "For languages elects Spanish or French, for philosophy and economics a combination course known as 'social science', for mathematics some sort of applied geometry, for oratory the dramatic club. With such a snap who couldn't make...
...which has been brought to this country from a French church, dating from the 16th century. On the side of utility there are ventilators under each seat in this same hall, sound proof walls, made so by a special kind of porous plaster used in all the rooms, and indirect lighting at all times in all the galleries. The entire building is of fireproof construction...