Word: manifestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much is a matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which they lived, and they directed in some part the course of events. Was not Henry Adams, ironic, questioning, dubious, ill directed in his search for a manifest destifly as much the monarch--a suitable Adams word--among his contemporaries? But on this or on any other philosophic aspect of his subject Mr. Adams refuses to speculate. Only once, after carefully heading his bet, does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite...
...there. Her natural sympathy with people, she says, "has caused me many inward conflicts, and it has always drawn people to me in the same degree that I flowed out to them and identified myself with them, and it has always made people want to kiss me, to manifest an actual nearness and union, finding it comforting and consolatory. It is the only genius I have ever had but it has been enough, and these pages are given to recording its progress." Her own account, however, makes herself out an unextraordinary only child. Her parents got along badly. Her father...
Knowledge ladled out in spoon-fed doses, like the brimstone and treacle of Dotheboys Hall, is a thing of the past, but in certain history and sociology the evil influence of the ancient Trivium and Quadrivium remains. These atavistic tendencies are manifest, not in any narrowness or compulsion in the inculcation of ideas, but in the insulation from more than one view of the subjects studied, shown in the assignments of seventy-three pages in one book, one-hundred-and-ninety-nine in another, consecutively covering historical periods, perhaps of Tudor England, or of ante-bellum America. It is obvious...
...this questioning room and everywhere else in the building the last word in efficiency was manifest. My questioners certainly knew what they were doing. That is. among other things they knew engineering. . . . At intervals food was brought in, and in abundance. Among other things there was caviar...
...total of those registered for library privileges, amounting to some 400 persons. Visiting scholars who are allowed to make use of the stacks increased in number from 456 last year to 572 this year. The beneficial effects of inspecting the books taken out of the Library continue to manifest themselves. A cheek of certain well-used sections of the stacks has shown that the losses have fallen off by $5 per cent as compared to three years...