Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken up, but is a godsend keeping me up on what goes on in the mother-land...
...American Union Building to address a meeting of the Pan-American Union's governing board. The President interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to his listeners not as an instrument of U. S. dominion over the Americas, but as a mutual protective society "aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. "I regard existing conflicts between four of our sister republics," said...
...Order the regulars to the rear at the outbreak of war to train a citizen army and throw the militia immediately into the first fighting line. Explained General Hagood: "This is the manner in which the Confederate Army used the regular army officers it got at the outbreak of the Civil War. It is the plan recommended for future wars by Grant in his memoirs. It is the plan the British wished they'd had after they lost the flower of their army in the first few battles in France...
...student of American history or literature this course is essential, and for the harassed scientist looking for some easy, though enjoyable manner by which he may pass off his literature requirement it may be taken without the fear of spending one's time in the drudgery of uninteresting reading...
...Woman Accused," the other offering at the theatre, is another, one of those productions which takes place in apartments, furnished in the modern manner, with large numbers of handsome young women. Nancy Carroll, the star, overacts in her usual manner. She kills a lover, and goes on a three day cruise with her husband-to-be, played by Cary Grant. Naturally, everything comes out all right, and the train of love drags weightily throughout the performance. Irving Pichell and John Halliday enliven the rendition with excellent acting...