Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
...meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism as well as Communism...
...stories, fables, philosophies, and poetry which make up the Old Testament are manifold, and, as far as the Vagabond is concerned, those few bits with which he is conversant are eternal and inviolate--chiselled into his youthful Sunday School memory while it was yet malleable. There is no comparable literature so beautifully turned and so thoughtfully set down; none other has survived the harsh voyage down the ages, through third and fourth generations, even unto the hundreth and two hundreth and more...
Incidentally, the instructor who corrected each question would then only have to decipher one handwriting. This would serve the manifold purpose of allowing each student to concentrate on a certain point, of getting the best opinion available among the section men on the value of the answers he wrote, of saving time both in the writing and in the correcting of quizzes, and of bringing about a standard system of grading for all men in all sections...
With such manifold and disturbing topics to discuss, one thing is certain; there will be plenty of opinions expressed. There is, however, some question as to whether those opinions will be student views, and it is the choice of speakers which causes this question. Instead of addresses by noted advocates, statesmen or diplomats, the gathering will be harangued by two Labor men, Powers Hapgood, of the New England council of the C.I.O., and Robert Morse Lovett, editor of the New Republic, national chairman of the League for Industrial Democracy, and pro-Labor sympathizer. What these men have...