Word: manifolded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safely through another year. Almighty God has continued to bestow upon us the light of His countenance, and we have prospered. Not only have we enjoyed material success, but we have advanced in wisdom and in spiritual understanding. The products of our fields and our factories and of our manifold activities have been maintained on a high level. We have gained in knowledge of the higher values of life. There has been advancement in our physical wellbeing. We have increased our desire for the things that minister to the mind and to the soul. We have raised the mental...
...defend the economic interests of Europe against the U. S. But the Independance Beige, Brussels newspaper, declared that Germany considers U. S. opposition to reciprocal trade treaties "audacious and unjustified," while Britain backs France, as do other powers, who are subjected to the U. S. tariff and "its manifold surprises...
Certainly there are Hamlets and Hamlets and manifold methods of interpretation. Some fit the part, others do not. Mr. Leiber is one who is particularly suited to it. It does not seem, certainly, in his case that anything is lest by foregoing most opportunities for extreme grandiloquence. To those who care more for their Shakespeare than for the accomplishments of the actor and who appreciate the force of judicious simplicity, Fritz Leiber is certain to appeal strongly...
...present era will be remarkable to future historians for its manifold expressions of an urge to unify human activities on a world-wide scale. This urge had taken clear form in men's minds by the opening of the 20th Century. Dreamers dreamed world Utopias. Statesmen fashioned a league and a court for the world's nations. In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted. Scientists planned to blanket the earth with radio power waves from common world generators. Men flew around the world, proposed a world language, spun world-wide business networks...
Rumbling is a major sport, if there ever was one. We would, for example, and probably should, before the evening was over, give a considerable sum to go out and rumble for a little while now. It has manifold attributes among which is overemphasis, and its only drawback, so far as we can see, is the possibility of a long cool walk to Cambridge. But tonight, instead of rumbling along, starting quiet towns, we are staying in and rumbling typewriter keys. And, as some one has said, it isn't the heat, it's the humility...