Word: indirectness
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Cried David Lloyd George (Liberal) bristling wittily at Chancellor Churchill: "Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul! . . . He [Churchill] is robbing the whole twelve Apostles in order to endow Paul. . . . Any such program would constitute an indirect subsidy for the property owning classes [i.e. for the owners of farmlands and producer goods]. . . . The whole proposal is thoroughly vicious...
...least six good reasons exist for private capital to build toll bridges: 1) motor travelers are willing to pay tolls to shorten their journeys; 2) local authorities derive a certain, if trifling, indirect income; 3) government authorities are often too lethargic to construct needed bridges; 4) engineering friends of private capitalists, rather than the engineering friends of officeholders get the construction jobs and profits; 5) sale of bridge bonds and stocks provides work and profits for banking houses; 6) bridge bonds and stocks are investment opportunities for people with idle money...
...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...