Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientists have believed for some time that Cambrian animal life, as revealed in existing fossils, must have depended on land plants for part of their diet. But such indirect evidence for the existence of vegetable forms has never before been confirmed by finding the remains of the plants themselves...
...participate in it are willing to give. Football, of course, supplies the pennies for the H.A.A. strong box and keeps a large number of people aware of Harvard's existence. Crew has a social prominence which the University would hate to sacrifice, despite the fact that it produces only indirect monetary gains. And rare is the undergraduate who is so indifferent to Harvard athletics that he does not have at least an inkling in his mind of what the major teams are doing. And for this reason it seems not unnatural that sports like swimming and basketball should be promoted...
...rubles and a supply of Marxian pamphlets and win over a population to atheism and Bolshevism in a jiffy? What were the priests doing? . . . There was something wrong in Spain. What was it?" To similar questions which have been asked about Mexico, Pius XI last week gave an indirect but revealing answer, namely that Mexico's clergy needs "sanctification." In more detail, like a father reminding his children that he has given warning before, the Pope recommended study of an encyclical he wrote two Decembers ago describing the qualities of an efficient priesthood, with special emphasis on the need...
...debate for any of the better speakers in the House, the 68-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer simply got to his feet and stubbornly told 74-year-old Mr. Lloyd George by implication to shut up and retire to the British has-beens' corner in these elegant, indirect and almost-insulting words: "My right honorable friend [Lloyd George] has found the secret foi perpetual youth, and therefore nobody expects him to play the part of an elder statesman! He has always advocated bold measures. He thinks I am a hard case, but he has not yet convinced...
...along came an Armenian rugman with a luxurious 40 foot carpet but once more Lampy wasn't at home. And then came the climax of the evening. Not a speech by a prominent graduate, but another kind of speaker. One equally raucous, one equally unintelligible, but one of only indirect Lampoon descent. Just an old-fashioned goose. Sibi by name...