Word: mannerizes
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...there you have it; Mr. Hartt was at a divinity school where no one had read the Bible all the way through from beginning to end, but only a passage at a time. It was his idea that such manner of reading invited gross misinterpretation. He proves that this is so, and shows us a Man so much more real, so much more believeable, than the traditional figure obscured by myth, that at times one's breath is taken away by the very simplicity of the truth; and by the beauty of it more. For instance, everyone will recall...
...last period the action speeded up in no uncertain manner, and Cumings was called upon to stop four fast shots, while Newell, his predecessor during the first period, encountered but one sickly dribble. Harvard's attack also spruced up and Kelly, the B. U. cageman, had to do as much work as he had done in the first two periods combined...
...must be admitted that most of the graduate contributions lead one to believe that the quondam editors are no longer in their element. This is only to be expected. Years of change both in the manner of inducing the smile, and in the graduates themselves are bound to make a difference. But there was one guest at the dinner, who pictures himself flying to Boston to Russian leaps, completely at one with the work he had to do. Of course Mr. James Montgomery Flagg is old in the ways of his craft. But he needed all his cunning to strike...
...bills were presented by the Government: 1) asking for increased control over exchange operations; 2) providing for greater economies in the public services and an increase of 20% in all taxes. The Government obtained a vote of confidence of 394 to 180 on the manner in which the business is to be handled...
...this to pay reparation debts which, from proposals formulated by America herself, should have been paid by Germany. When France is giving the warmest reception to the American financial experts conducting the examination here it is scarcely the time to impugn France's good intentions in an extreme manner." Le Temps said: "It seems to us that France ought to take the initiative in new negotiations on the War debts. She could begin, as did England, by approaching the United States. First the exact total of the American claim on France should be fixed, which would be a matter...