Word: manifeste
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...likes peace. Lately he was called to serve on a jury that was to decide whether or not the Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., and 13 others were guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Unlike many citizens Mr. Conant did not wiggle out of his manifest duty. He was impaneled with eleven others, who elected him their foreman. For six weeks the trial continued. In the end, only one of the jurors remained unconvinced that there had been conspiracy; so there was no verdict, the jury was discharged and the case had to be slated for retrial...
...homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments. He is a violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy. In 1913 he took a Nobel Prize for physiology, and to him wisdom is manifest in the perfect functioning of an animal organism unmolested by what others have been pleased to call the "higher" mental faculty. Farfetched, superficial, his book is but an amusing social irritant...
...When the desire for education became manifest native schools sprang up, but were still incapable of filling the need. In time American students conceived the idea of building colleges in the East in which the need of the people for education might be met and in which the English language might be taught and disseminated...
...whole duty of airplanes is now made manifest, in 52 folio pages, compiled, examined and approved by expert engineers, designers and men of the air. Last week H. M. Crane, General Motors technician and chairman of a joint committee of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the Society of Automotive Engineers, announced completion of the "aircraft safety code." A five-year labor, the code includes regulations for the design, manufacture, testing and operation of all types of craft, qualifications for pilots, traffic rules...
...right to spit upon the symbols of Religion and of our Native Land and of the State, very well; I as Head of the Fascisti declare that this 'Liberty' shall never come into existence. . . . Fascism throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . The truth, manifest henceforth to all whose eyes are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps tired of liberty. They have had an orgy of it. Liberty today is no longer the chaste and severe virgin for whom fought and died the generations of the first half of the past century...