Word: manifestation
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...among them the elimination of the House nomination meetings that caused so much ruckus last Spring. Though many of this year's Council members were not associated with the group last year, they should consider the new constitution carefully, in the light of all the shortcomings that have been manifest in Council activity during past years. If they do, the Council will be able to get things done--without so much trouble...
During the first four innings the game was a pitchers' duel, Dixon allowing only a scratch hit to Ed Foynes and God in giving up two clean singles. In the fifth, however, the Crimson right-hander's usual lack of control made itself manifest and two walks, an infield out, and a sharp one base hit through the box by Pete Philliou, cost him two runs...
...somewhat less than 30 years, thank you, measure, together, eight feet . . . I would be beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there we go on to "sharp, intelligent, adroit and clever." And if this were not enough, to "forward in speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert...
Under the Student Council's constitution, the entire student body must vote in referendum every four years on amendments. 1950 is an amendment year, and this is one thing the new group is basing its hopes on; if reform is manifest in the proposed amendments, no abolition movement will start...
...Walt Whitman who gave the fullest imaginative expression to the theme of manifest destiny. He clothed the idea of westward expansion in highly idealistic terms, seeing in it a restoration of man's lost harmony with nature as well as a prelude to peace and brotherhood of nations. Then came James Fenimore Cooper who cautiously modified the romantic tradition in the novel to give America its mythological pioneer prototype in Leatherstocking...