Word: manifesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...developed self-government as it can and should. In old efforts to secure special privileges and what it conceived to be more effective security, it has helped to concentrate power in the Federal Government. I oppose that because I oppose undue concentration and usurpation of power wherever manifest, and because I think Washington cannot frame economic laws that are sure to be sound or self-operating or that can fit the diversified conditions of this diversified country...
...some months the lack of confidence felt by Belgian bankers and industrialists in the Belgian Finance Ministry has been made manifest by their refusal to cooperate with Premier Poullet's Cabinet in its efforts to stabilize the franc, which has been steadily declining...
Undergraduate journalism is not the pale growth of a few years ago. A new and healthy spirit is manifest in many college papers. No subject is now taboo that affects the interest of the learners and no college official is immune from criticism and publicity...
...CODENTRY?Ernest Pascal?Brentano ($2). The psychological network that entangles Cynthia Codentry and causes her retreat from metropolitan philanderings to the dumb worship of Dirt-Farmer Swedge of Long Island, all unravels to the old copybook line about him who hesitates. In his wisdom and mercy, Author Pascal makes manifest some reasons for Cynthia's hesitations ? unnatural home life with her divorced actor-father; the enervating effect of life among rich school girls; a sophisticated girl's natural fear of being prematurely pigeonholed by life. But these extenuations do not suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted for modernity...
...course there are many who scruple at the publicity complex so manifest in Mr. Mencken's case. Yet, for once, the gentleman for Baltimore is on the side of sanity and discretion. If Boston is to harbor Tartuffes, it is well to be aware of the fact here, that one may protect oneself against them. And since the Watch and Ward Society is firmly established it is evident that Mr. Mencken is waging justified, protective warfare. Ethics are not the most facilely adjusted elements in any urban administration. Yet an occasional acquaintance with them hurts no one. Ward bosses...