Word: mannerizes
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...carry the evidence to its conclusion, even though it upset some previous beliefs or opinions. If they add to previous knowledge a careful and orderly consideration of the topic, and shape their beliefs to accord with new facts, then the scientific process begins, and subjects treated in this manner, when they exist in the field of nature, become natural history...
Amongst our other activities recently the University Mission has loomed fairly large. Dr. Furse, the Bishop of St. Albans, was O. C., if we may borrow from military sources, and his strong personality and characteristically breezy manner went far to appeal to the undergraduates. The attendances, we are told, were good; and at the close of the Mission the Archbishop of Canterbury came up to add his seal to the proceedings...
...should be put on the White House steps, it would be our regrettable duty, as a bureau, in an impartial, non-political and non-partisan way to advise the Executive and Congress as to how the largest amount of garbage could be spread in the most expeditious and economical manner...
...picture shows in the simplest manner that things are not always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted...
...little man with an angry face and a repulsive manner who sought to make no man his friend, who never made an interesting speech and never talked less than four hours."That is a description (in the current issue of The Forum) of a prominent United States Senator who would like to be President...