Word: manual
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stayed away from the reproachful glances of his family as much as possible, though in mid-summer of this year he suffered the humiliation of moving them into two furnished rooms. In September, his savings were all gone. Now for the first time he was willing to accept manual labor, any labor. He was lonely, afraid, undergoing a mental and moral breakdown. But he could not find...
...simple passion for their complicated, smooth-running luxury. As insatiably curious as the Elephant's Child, he had nosed out everything he could about the "luxury hotel." Imperial Palace's 769 pages, besides comprising a fine novel, contain enough information on hotel management to serve as a manual...
Wilbur: Jane Cowl in "Twelfth Night". The highly articulate and manual Miss Cowl giving a really good performance...
...children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting and being able to do many of the things custom forbids them. They must adjust themselves "to a sense of sex-inferiority, without losing self-respect and self-determination, on the one hand, and without becoming morbidly aggressive...
Newsstand clients wondered if "Bobby Jones on Golf," published by a subsidiary of Macfadden Publications Inc., was really written by Golfer Robert Tyre Jones himself. The manual, 112 pages long, contained more or less routine articles on the proper way to handle various clubs, how to correct common faults, "Tips for the Nervous Golfer," plentiful pictures (including Golfer Jones when young), a large volume of advertising. Investigation revealed that Golfer Jones had not employed a ghost, that he had originally sold the articles to Bell Features Syndicate, having patiently scrawled out his copy over weekends, to meet the regulation...