Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title as an excuse, the course has become a comprehensive study of the organization of modern industry. But there are no facts to learn; no primary sources from which to amass empirical data. With slight exception, Economics 3 treats theory exclusively, and treats it in an almost fascinating manner. It is barely necessary even to take lecture notes or to do the most of the reading, which is negligible anyway. But it is most essential to think, to argue with one's classmates and one's tutor; or in short, to be enthusiastic. For the subject-matter of the course...
...government punished them in a manner that ought by no means to send the alarm of "massacre" and "fanatical slaughter" ringing in sections of the Western press. The government then communicated to the League of Nations its complaint against the way the situation was handled by the French authorities in Syria...
...Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
...blaze out the set at love. In the last set, Crawford's gesture of patting his chest as though his heart or his lungs hurt him, became more noticeable. He managed to break through Perry's serve in the third game and then suddenly the deliberate manner that had seemed to indicate a carefully controlled supply of reserve energy became an expression of utter fatigue. Perry, dancing around the court, barely able to wait for the ball-boys to furnish ammunition for his serve, smashed through four more games for set, match and title-the first an English...
...What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the pastor-executive-publicist. He is entertaining and vivacious, but restrained in comparison with the thunderers of half a century ago. He speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent...