Word: indirectly
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...same time, the group adopted the strictest and simplest athletic code since colleges began to build grandstands. Main points, some of which were carried over from earlier Ivy agreements: ¶ No athletic scholarships of any kind, direct or indirect. ¶ Strict eligibility requirements. Items: no student will be considered eligible until he has "completed satisfactorily" a full year's academic work at the school he is to represent; thereafter, he must continue to make good progress, "quantitatively and qualitatively," toward "a recognized degree." ¶ No spring football practice. ¶ No post-season games (except N.C.A.A. competitions...
Laying down a policy of "leadership," the President proposed that the Federal Government's direct role in housing be decreased and its indirect role be increased. He would reorganize the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fanny May") to turn most of its operations in the secondary mortgage market over to private capital. But he would broaden the Federal Government's role as an insurer of housing loans, where it stands behind the industry and the owner. To preserve existing houses, he would have the Government liberalize the terms on which it will insure loans for purchase and repair...
...true, then, that in the bowels of this crazy indirect-lighted monolith, one can relax, and forget the pressures of the Victorian reality that lies in waiting outside the big glass doors. Indeed, some of the hardier lads can even, I know not how, manage to catch a little sleep beneath the soft lights, amid the soothing rustle of encyclopedia pages...
...commercial symbols . . . and rites are rapidly replacing the church, the candles and the Psalms. These are the plush carpet, the exalted open casket, the heavily scented banks of funeral flowers, the dim, indirect light, distant recorded syrupy music replete with chimes and vox humana, all centered in the new dominant architecture of almost every community, the funeral home and chapel...
Important Hints. Cullmann agrees with the Catholics on the evidence of Peter's transfer to Rome, though he concedes that the evidence is indirect. Going further. Cullmann endorses the traditional version of Peter's death. The early evidence for this, also, is no more than "hints," for Christian writers did not begin mentioning Peter's Roman martyrdom until the second and third centuries. But the hints are important ones, e.g., in all the church controversies of the early centuries, no one saw fit to deny Peter's Roman martyrdom. As Cullmann observes: "Were we to demand...