Word: manifeste
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...became the largest stockholder in a corporation . . . both interested in state and interstate commerce. . . . The fact that we had to sell what we produced did not change the nature of our business from that of producer to that of trade or commerce. ... I was familiar with the statute, the manifest purpose of which I approve...
...Senator in an open letter to Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the board: "I have been greatly concerned for years over what I regard to be an improper activity, the work at Washington of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in the Methodist Church, in its manifest efforts to dictate and control legislation. I disapprove of this. . . . Our traditional attitude has been one of rebellion against ecclesiastical interference with the state. Yet you are doing exactly what we have demanded shall not be done by the Catholics." Dr. Wilson answered with another open letter to Dr. Copeland, denied...
...urged that Radcliffe build an art center of its own for its students, who "take up space" and who "manifest" an "apparently irresistible temptation to whisper" in "what should be a men's library...
...extent that it can provide no Fine Arts books or photographs for its students? Their presence in what should be strictly a men's Library is most of all annoying because of the space taken up and next because of the apparently irresistable temptation to whisper which these ladies manifest...
...little less than he would in any other field. With some Companies, decidedly less. Instead of the $25.00 or $30.00 a week that Insurance or Telephone Companies offer, the novitiate in investment banking will get $15.00 to $25.00, and his chances for an increase do not make themselves manifest for something like an entire year. At the end of several years, however, his earning capacity has probably passed that of the men who have entered the other industries...