Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas of Madison, Wis., did not endear himself to little boys when he said: "The traditional school year with a summer vacation of ten weeks or more is . . . a manifest absurdity in the city...
...certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned old men throw horseshoes in the yards of Florida hotels. They are the ones who like the game best, but the young men are the champions. The headquarters of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association...
...father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington, D. C., with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets...
...Postmaster General Harry S. New, quick to approve the action of Postmaster Kiely, said: "It is a manifest absurdity to permit political agitators and advocates of various governmental policies to utilize the United States mails to propagandize the public. . . ." The All-American Anti-Imperialist League replied by printing several thousand new stickers bearing the same legend plus a cartoon of a huge boot, with...
...appearance this week of the University Register is a February fulfillment of a need that was felt before the advent of November hours. The lack of any such directory to the University was unpleasantly manifest last year, a deficiency remedied by Student Council provision...