Word: manifolded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guns reach twelve kilometers farther than those of our old first-line ships and fire thrice as fast per minute. The risk of its sinking has been materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
...such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel. Trans-Atlantic commuters who saw its opening at the Pavilion Theatre in London were reduced to choked, ecstatic finger-tip kissing in their attempts to relate its manifold charms. Jesse Matthews, they ultimately gasped, sings "A Room with a View." . . . Tillie Losch's fluttering hands, fanciful feet . . . brilliant . . . divine...
...significance of the honors percentage. It is safe to say that these cases are the exception rather than the rule. In the majority which is composed happing of those who are able to maintain an equilibrium of interest and affection for every phase of their University's manifold being, the significance of the fast that Harvard today conferred 1884 degrees, the largest huminity in its history, bringing a close its two-hundred and ninety-second year with about one-third, or over 30 percent of those graduating in the College receiving honors in studies, will not be overshadowed...
...judgment in business affairs and that his judgment is not so good as it is supposed to be. They think there is something incalculable, headstrong, moody, in Mr. Hoover's temperament which would make the White House, if he were President, a centre of restless activity, of manifold arrangings and fixings. They think Mr. Hoover is too sure he would be a good President; that he would think himself too competent to solve all difficulties; that he would be too ready with solutions of everything that turns up. They do not regard him as radical, and they...
...sits there in a carved chair with nothing in front of him but a long list of his day's appointments, giving decisions on the manifold and complex questions that come before him with extraordinary powers of memory and judgment...