Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parish is in open contempt arid defiance of the authority and law of the Church of which you are a minister . . . and I hereby admonish you that if you proceed in defiance of the inhibition of the Bishop of the Diocese such action upon your part will be in direct violation of the constitution and canons of the Church, and will be regarded as conduct unbecoming a clergyman under the terms of Canon 28 of the General Convention...
...would through the K. C. & S. and the M. K. & T. extend into the Southwest, and to the Great Lakes through the D. L. & W. It is thought that this new combination would be most inimical to the New York Central, since it would provide a new and direct route through the Lake territory of the latter road, especially between Detroit and New York...
...published my letter calling attention to the improper spelling of the past tense of the verb "to broadcast." Just returning from abroad, I have noticed the publication of letters in TIME, Mar. 23 issue from two grammaticasters, viz: Mr. G. C. Miles of Princeton, N J, taking direct issue, and Mary Adda Reade of Oak Park, III., talking beside the point...
Corrosion. Rust and corrosion annually destroy some $300,000,000 worth of metals. Only lately has their cause been agreed upon. Not direct oxidation by water or air nor colloidal reaction is now blamed, but electricity set up in metals by the chemical action of contiguous water, air or (especially) the two mixed. The currents disintegrate the metals, producing oxides and carbonates?iron rust, verdigris, tarnish, "bronze disease." Dr. Willis R. Whitney, Director of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Co., is accredited the founder of the electro-chemical theory of corrosion...
...coast of Ecuador. A week passed, ten days, eleven. On the twelfth day, the U. S. Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating she was off the Galapagos Islands (730 miles west from Ecuador). Heavy static at the equator had interfered with Beebe's wireless...