Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan has long been afoot to move the Senate chamber 40 feet north, so that it could have windows. Now, flanked by corridors and offices in the heart of the Senate wing of the Capitol, its ventilation is indirect save through flat, inadequate skylights...
...activities of little lasting value in order to acquire temporary recognition. Outside the circle of "big men" are those of quiet worth who have time for the pursuit of cultural interests, and leisure for the friendships and purposeless occupations that characterized college life before it become a business. Another indirect result of the size, then, is the placing of false emphasis on extra-curricular activities in order to obtain social honors. By the present system, the successful become enslaved by their jobs and the rest have no chance to contribute to the life of the College, a condition which...
...status as a minor sport golf resembles polo. The machinery of each makes it caviar to the general, and thus neither has any financial rating in an athletics-for-all policy. Although golf must be content with its present lot in the Harvard budget, one indirect benefit has appeared. Greens fees and expensive course privileges may have put' golf on an undemocratic basis, but the sport not enjoyed by the many is given a clear position of importance that is, if nothing else, honorary...
Thus Signor Benito Mussolini is placed in a position to absolutely dominate the Chamber by indirect appointive means. Other features of the law include: 1) Reduction of the number of deputies from 535 to 400; 2) The Grand Council to draw the nominees which it approves for candidacy from panels submitted by exclusively Fascist organizations, such as the 13 "corporations" which represent all Fascist agricultural, industrial and employer groups; 3) Suffrage to be accorded to celibate citizens over 21 or to married citizens over 18, provided that they pay certain taxes or are of the recognized clergy or are state...
Last week High Steward Poincare completed his indirect accounting and appeal to the electorate by shrewdly declaring that in 1928 he will (i.e. if supported at the general election) complete the fiscal rehabilitation of France by finally and legally stabilizing the franc...