Word: manual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistake to believe that clicking the heels is the only proper deportment or that the man begins with the manual of arms. The well-known rough but hearty tone is not everywhere in place, especially in the company of women. There is no reason to feel that one is at all times in high boots, even when one is wearing laced shoes...
...recognizable syllables by various arrangements of his hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...
...with the drama, that there are no courses in the Art Department dealing exclusively with stage design, and that there are no courses in the English Department which give exclusive instruction in playwriting. What may be done to effect a reconciliation of the University's policy of not providing manual instruction in undergraduate courses, and the growing demand for a broadening of scope in the study of the drama, will be discussed in the second of these editorials...
...schools the reputation of being the poorest and most expensive in the U. S. Of the $52,000,000 budget this year, only $35,000,000 went for instruction. Struck down in the past few years have been kindergartens, continuation schools, the junior college, junior high schools, manual training, domestic science and physical training in elementary schools. In one-half the elementary schools children have only drinking fountains to wash their hands...
...that the safety-at-sea law passed last year had teeth. By these terms all U. S. ships carrying 50 or more passengers were required to install, by July 1, 1937, automatic sprinkler systems or gain exemption by such other safety devices as steel decks, electric fire detection, patrols, manual alarms and an ample complement of fire extinguishers. The 109 U. S. Merchant Marine ships affected included the whole famed, globe-encircling Dollar Line and its subsidiary, the American Mail Line. Three months' extension was added to the effective date-making the deadline Oct. 1. While other lines docked...