Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given for Freshmen, graduate students, and students from other countries. The work does not stop with receptions, however, and an "Open House" is held from time to time, particularly at Thanksgiving and Christmas. When the rush of opening week quiets down, the various functions of the Association begin to manifest themselves. The Social Service Committee helps all men who are interested in doing philanthropic work to find some outlet for their interest. About 200 Harvard men annually do work through this committee which varies in scope from Sunday School Teaching to Juvenile Court service...
...results are only partially manifest. To many young people what used to be considered lapses from the moral code, are now considered to be acts which are as natural as eating and drinking. Indeed, youth often decides on the basis of expediency or worthwhileness, whether sexual intercourse should be indulged in, never thinking of any after effects, because they believe there will be none. They see no harm in it-science will protect them; and science generally does. . . . Whatever we may think of such conduct, the thing for us to notice is that it does exist, and that largely because...
...British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign Office refused to issue passports to five children, nominated by British Communist organizations to visit Russia as guests of the Moscow Congress of Russian Youth Pioneers...
...Oxford and Cambridge have a rivalry of considerable longer standing than that between Harvard and Yale, a rivalry that draws athletes from the college competitions of each University and places them of late, under paid coaches. The British public has come to manifest some interest in the contests and the most spectacular matches are played where the best crowds can be drawn. Rugby football, moreover, as the most popular sport, has frequently accumulated surplus funds which have been distributed, as with football in America, to nourish less fortunate games. In each college, there is a central control for athletics...
...Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped in thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into a damaging admission. Then and there, the Premier was literally yanked down by the coattails. He subsided between the other two Fates until he could collect his thoughts and go on. This little comedy was played...