Word: manifesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed. Apprehension grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain...
Isostasy. The earth's crust is not uniformly rigid, and a good thing, too. If it were, the stress of gravity would destroy the equilibrium of the spinning globe. The theoretic principle maintaining this equilibrium is called isostasy, manifest in earthquakes, or crust- shiftings. Earthquakes are thus a sort of blessing. To isostasy, these lines...
Captain Ludovici is convinced that sex equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...
...certain type of successful small boy there is observed a spirit that cannot brook the presence of a tall tree in front or back yard until he has shinned to its topmost crotch. Among grown men, the same intolerance is manifest where parties of them scramble for the pinnacles of high mountains...
...college year now ended finds the University in an era of expansion, the greatest it has ever known. Growing pains are everywhere manifest. The remodeling of Massachusetts Hall, the erection of new buildings in the Yard, the plans for the new Business School unit, other new dormitories and a new art museum, all indicate that the physical expansion of the University is responding to the demands for more adequate facilities...