Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference idea and in planning the inaugural session here this year, the "Princetonian" has had as its objective the presentation of an opportunity for selected undergraduates and faculty members of the three universities to meet prominent leaders in government and business, and to discuss with them in a straightforward and informal manner the important problems arising out of the vital topic "Government and Economic Security...
Last fortnight Señor Paredes received a reply from Judge Lazarus: "I intend to be as straightforward with you as you have been considerate with me. Basing my conclusions on years of observation. I regret to say that there is probably no group in this city, proportionate to its members, that supplies us with more criminal business than the local Filipino colony. It is no compliment to the predominant race that most crimes committed by Filipinos have as background intimate relations with white girls. Jealousy between rivals for the affections of the same girl leads to assaults, knifings...
...live with her married sister, Katia, whose husband, Smokovnikov, is a lawyer of liberal politics. In Katia's intelligentsiac salon Dasha meets the evil Bessonov, poet of despair, who has already seduced her sister and almost hypnotizes Dasha herself. Luckily for her she falls in love with the straightforward Telegin, an engineer whose only connection with the highbrow world is his menagerie of tenants, all left-wing esthetes. As first the War and then the Revolution sweep down on Russia, these human figures take on a more & more symbolic meaning. Though Author Tolstoi is careful not to make...
Major expenses like the state housing board, and bond issues for building programs are wretchedly enough controlled to warrant a general budget-housecleaning; but it is the countless number of petty outlets for corrupt spending that really bleed the taxpayers dry. The cool and straightforward way in which their representatives who drew up the report have ferreted out and condemned these rampant evils, shows that there exists in this state, at least, a strong public determination to clean up a particularly harmful form of graft. Legislators will have to give ear to this growing voice of discontent, for, like William...
Premier Okada, who by a miracle also escaped assassination by soldiers, continued to hold office ad interim last week while search was conducted for a new Premier & Cabinet. In Japan this is anything but a straightforward process. A subject is commissioned by the Son of Heaven to form a Cabinet, but he cannot do so and become Premier unless he successfully supplicates an Army officer to deign to act as War Minister and a Navy officer to deign to become Naval Minister in his Cabinet...