Word: manifolded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting with all its manifold possibilities is worked into the story only so far as in necessary to give piquancy to the romance involved. The tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...
...Commencement orations were reported yesterday, however, which emphasize a point deserving of more attention from the college man than it now receives. The manifold opportunities for the university graduate in one or the other of the branches of the Public Service are usually brushed aside in favor of some private enterprise. They should not be. The responsibilities of government now rest largely upon the stupid, the untrained, the men of ward mentality. Certain members of the present administration at Washington are eloquent testimony to this condition. Many men today graduate with a natural aptitude for the Public Service, only...
...nice adjustment of means to end, is not only the chief concern of business, but that, increasingly, business men are coming to look to the professional schools of business for its perfecting. There it can be studied, with the detachment of laboratory specialization--its history and its present manifold forces. And for the business research, as well as for business teaching, to which the Harvard Business School is making such great contributions, there are great possibilities of usefulness which will be developed in the coming years...
...Daily the Associated Press surveys the universe and deliberately selects from its manifold happenings such events as are significant of society today. Then it groups these events with a proper sense of proportion in order that the newspaper reader may have a correct picture of things as they are- the one sure foundation for straight thinking...
ESSAYS IN POPULAR SCIENCE? Julian S. Huxley?Knopf ($4). "There is a danger," says the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think at all." Hence?and because the layman, while he is knowing and kindly towards an atom or electron when he meets one, is embarrassed by sperms and ova and benighted as to chromosomes?hence another volume of popular biology...