Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...man of science, keen, enthusiastic, President Little went into Maine like a lion and came out three years later still more leonine. Flaying Maine for being miserly towards education he left for Michigan to try "on a very large scale the educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt" (TIME, July 13, 1925). Michigan, he thought, was willing. Last week he had to admit that it was unwilling...
...Sled Corp., Manhattan), Model 18 attracted the most attention. With their square bows and inverted-V bottoms,* the Sea Sleds keep their noses well out of the water, keep their passen gers free from flying spray. Model 18 is equipped with a demountable sliding cabin - a one-man top arrangement designed to combine the advantages of an open and of a cabin boat. It is equipped with toilet and kitchenette and, says its catalog description...
...Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller stronghold. Hence, the result of the Rockefeller-Stewart fight in the Indiana Company may be of far more than man-to-man significance...
Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...
Said L'Osservatore Romano, in effect: ''Rotarians are concerned solely with man, his reason, conscience, will and works, while Providence is not considered and practically repudiated, therefore denied...