Word: directed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk as the first ship of the first direct and regular service to be established between the U. S. and Russia since the War. Other A. E. L. ships will follow at ten-day intervals, crossing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea in a total of 30 days, stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there...
Believed in Direct Speech...
Here I first came upon that directness which some people called brutality but which was merely the courageous kindness of sincerity. Direct speech, at any cost, was an article of his faith. He was as ready to receive it as to give it. At a meeting of graduate students, while I was talking with the professor who had made the address of the evening, President Eliot came up to disagree with him face to face. The attack, though not personally hostile, was energetic. 'I said to myself', he declared, 'the trumpet gives an uncertain sound.' The lecturer, in the nervous...
...Marshal McBride of Utica, Miss, had an argument with James H. Llewellyn at a filling station; Llewellyn drew a knife: McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Reporter Saburo Suzuki of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi sat among 105 telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago public schools children marched two by two into assembly halls, listened to broadcasting, later told their fathers, many of whom complained by letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas...
...School of City Planning and of the degree of Master in it comes the naming of Professor Henry Vincent Hubbard '97 of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture as the first incumbent of the new Charles D. Norton Chair of Regional Planning. In addition to this, he will direct the School...