Word: indirectness
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...third thing which we must do is to get industry moving by furnishing direct and indirect employment on government work such as the development of Muscle Shoals and of other great power projects. We need above all things, to break the vicious circle of inaction. It is true that these developments by furnishing more power more easily, or, in the case of irrigation projects, by furnishing more land to provide food for an already overstocked market, seem, ultimately, to defeat their ends, but this is not necessarily so. If more power reduces the number of laborers necessary in one field...
...Earth's volume, 99.9% "must forever remain invisible and untouchable." Yet from the indirect evidence of earthquakes, volcanoes, mines, oil wells, igneous rocks on the weathered surface it was possible for Professor Reginald Aid-worth Daly (Harvard) to estimate the Earth's outer crust as 40 mi. thick in continental areas (thicker under seas); the next shell 1,800 mi. thick, composed of glassy rock more rigid than steel; the core a ball of molten iron 7,000 mi. in diameter, under 15 to 50 million pounds pressure per square inch...
...question of freedom of teaching is one rooted in every soil. Tennessee is concerned: so, recently, was New York. In Professor Irving Babbitt's essay on "Academic Leisure" still an other more indirect please of the subject is lighted up. In mentioning words of such universal importance. President Butler assumed a responsibility to contribute something to one side of the other. As he remarks. "Universities are from time to time denounced as nurseries of revolution by these who are quite unable to comprehend what freedom to seek the truth really means and involves." He proceeds to defend the implications...
...Chinese politics everything is indirect. Leaders of the present conservative Nanking Government got their start as revolutionaries in Canton. Openly accepting Russian gold and assisted by Moscow's most effective propagandist. Comrade Michael Borodin, they launched a war of conquest which swept across all China (TIME, Sept. 7, 1925 et seq.). Their innate wisdom caused them to break with Moscow at exactly the right moment. Triumphantly installed at Nanking, they washed their hands of everything Communist, sent Comrade Borodin packing, appealed for recognition by all the Great Powers and gradually obtained...
...direct aid to classroom work, it cannot, however, fail to bear upon it, since the discussions will afford training in economic thinking, and many of the topics will undoubtedly be taken up in various courses as well as in the Divisional Examinations. However, these results will be indirect. The primary purpose of the Forum is to give the Students living outside the Houses an opportunity to become articulate on economic ideas and problems...