Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picture to yourself a street no wider than seven feet on an average, with high, white walls rising up in an uncompromising manner, and put into that street enough Arabs, mules, donkeys, children, and files to fill a street fourteen feet wide on the average. That would give you a good working idea of what the main artery of Biskra was like. It requires a combination of broken-field running and line plunging that would perplex even the redoubtable George Owen...
...travel, even if it would be only a short walk for a European. When Hamids, or "Ham and," as I later called him, was too young to object very strenuously his parents cut a series of little "V" a on his forehead, one above the other in the manner of an inverted, or English, chevron, and then rubbed mud and same into the wounds so that they would stand out prettily. "Nothing is too good for our boy," they probably said, as they dragged him around to the local tattoo expert, to have the Hand of Fatime, (for luck), tattooed...
...form, the feature will not vary from precedent. The criticism of each course will be a succinct attempt to present an honest criticism of the subject and its manner of presentation. The criticism is at least not avowedly destructive, and the purpose is rather to furnish undergraduates with some better source of information on the courses which are open to them than exists at present...
...what do you suppose, my children? Some naughty, naughty little girl went right up to the library table and read Harper's. If you don't believe me, read "Jane", a story told in the Socratic manner...
...regulation, to obtain one seat for personal use at the University hockey games at a reduction of 55 cents on all seats over $1.50. At the Dartmouth and Yale games, according to C. E. Getchell ticket manager of the H. A. A., all the tickets allotted in this manner will be for reserved seats...