Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commenting upon the value of Social Service work, Professor James Ford '05, said yesterday. "The community's need of active social service on the part of college students is manifold. Juvenile delinquency may be materially reduced by means of students leadership in boys' clubs, in social centers, in settlement houses, through the Boy Scouts, and through social service in public probation departments. For boys, good or bad, are hero-worshippers and the college man comes to the, with a prestige and potential influence for the good which few, if any, others can parallel...
...Sidney S. Lenz, they say, who brought auction bridge to the Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...
Amid your manifold and widely interesting articles, can you not find space for something on popular astronomy?a subject of fascinating interest to multitudes who have never had even the chance to look through a telescope...
Bishop Manning, whose manifold duties do not give him time to strike from the solicitation lists the names of people of whom he disapproves, was vexed, silent...
...throughout such political organization as the country possesses, there is a constant aversion among hardened campaigners to anything which could be called a system. The city machine, falsely so-called, is bound only by ties of self-interest to the party throughout the state; while a national party contains manifold units of unequal cohesion. The men who run politics take a fancy to leaving the door wide open for rebellion, usurpation, and insubordination. They work, as Mrs. Blair remarks not by program but by prowess. They have a fight complex...