Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Wonder children are manifold in the musical world. Critics rarely take them seriously-but Kreisler was a prodigy, so were Heifetz, Mischa Elman. Young Yehudi Menuhin has supplied the best violin copy of the season. Another child won serious attention last week. He was Miguel Candela, 12-year-old prize-winner of the Paris Conservatory, come to Manhattan for his U. S. debut. Critics found him better than the average prize-promising student, gave unstinted praise to the virtuosity of his twelve years, the maturity of his conceptions...
...that these twelve months are drawing to a close, it is fitting that, as a Nation, and as individuals, in accordance with time-honored sacred custom, we should consider the manifold blessings granted to us. While in gratitude we rejoice, we should humbly pray that we may be worthy of a continuation of divine favor...