Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little later you tried to get it in a more indirect way, through the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier. Again he refused it. Somewhat to my surprise there appeared on the outside of your magazine [Oct. 1] a picture of Dr. MacCracken taken when he took part in a Greek play at Vassar. The photograph itself was a very poor one but it amused us for the time. Of course it was of mere passing interest and is not one that anyone would have sent you from here...
Another innovation in Lowell House is a special lighting system which has been installed in the library. Special ceiling lights have been put in to supply a quantity of indirect illumination; further, tested reading lights have been placed above all the chairs...
There are two important factors to consider about this reversal: first, the sequestered character of college life in relation to national events, and secondly, the policies of Roosevelt. The strong national discontent of 1932 with Hoover did not reach into these portals for the undergraduate came only indirectly into contact with the misfortunes besieging the country, and furthermore, he disliked the uncertainty which the Roosevelt administration promised at that time. But now one hears on every side of the accomplishments of this super-man; his chief measures fall broadly into College economic teachings; and the realization has grown that Hoover...
...display in the Coney Island yards of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. last week was the first high-speed aluminum train to be tried on New York City's vast subway system. At leather seats, indirect lighting, pastel color schemes, chimes for sliding doors, subway sardines gaped in astonishment. But a modern subway train was not the only BMT exhibit of the week. Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl was busy giving the first successful demonstration of how to circumvent the Securities Act of 1933. BMT's toothy, argumentative chairman was not bothered by any looming bond maturities. That problem...
...willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that...