Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
...trained upon a target whom he dared to attack only by indirect fire during his Army service-President Coolidge. "I recommended in 1925," he now writes, "that a board of disinterested persons be convened by the President to determine how the aeronautical problem should be handled in this country.** President Coolidge, instead of appointing a disinterested board, 'stuffed the deck.' He appointed on it persons well known to be hostile to the independent development of aviation. . . . Instead of creating a department of aeronautics separate from the Army and Navy as the English, French, Germans, Italians, Russians and Spanish...
...Chile and Peru; Bolivia's protestations were ignored. But the U. S. State Department let it be known that Bolivia was quite at liberty to make any arrangements with Chile that she could. Before Bolivia could get up momentum for a renewed appeal, Chile last week issued an indirect but nonetheless effective quasher. Her Minister to Uruguay abruptly announced: "My country brings to a close all of her frontier problems. None remains now to be contemplated...
...than the early Edison companies, a sphere of historic significance in any year celebrative of Electric Light. He resigned from his Edison connection because it was necessary for him to make a fundamental decision about this new electrical industry which was growing up. The decision lay between Direct and Indirect Current...