Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remarkable feat of legerdemain transformed this opinion into a mere dislike for the person of Commissioner Curtis. Although I do not know Mr. Laski personally, I feel certain that it will be a very shocking thing for him to find himself so completely whitewashed into orthodoxy, despite his manifest pride in maintaining his bizarre views...
There is a general feeling manifest in every field of human endeavor at the present time: a belief that the great struggle of the last five years has made new methods of life necessary, that there must be closer co-operation between capital and labor. And at the root of most of our social problems lies that of education. It has been customary -- too customary -- to dismiss any difficult problem with the statement: "If we had better education this would take care of itself." But, although these words have become very trite, it is none the less true that reforms...
...final adjournment of University football until after a touchdown has been scored across the Hun goal line has come to pass, but not without bringing pangs of regret to the hearts of its numberless adherents. The effort to keep the game alive during the war was manifest last season by the trial of the "informal system." Again this year an endeavor has been made to arrange games between representative teams of the large colleges...
...shall not see the end of these dangerous deficiencies, which have lately been especially manifest in aircraft and shipbuilding, until our nation realizes that hard work, not money appropriations however vast or intricately distributed and applied, is the only force which can bring into existence the numberless physical products which the prosecution of the war requires...
...anomalous condition seems to obtain today within the walls of academies. On the one hand, there is the manifest quickening of students' interest in life and affairs, and an increase of their sense of responsibility. This has been shown not only by their alacrity in any forms of military service opening before them, but also by such an appeal as lately came from Yale, calling on the faculty to establish forthwith a course, to be "compulsory on all and the hardest in the curriculum," that would aid them in understanding world movements today. On the other hand there has been...