Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive of natural beauty. Shoes made on a scientific basis after Dr. Appleton's method...
...every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive of natural beauty. Shoes made on a scientific basis after Dr. Appleton's method...
...murmuring and scuffling may be a significant, but it is hardly a dignified, manner of expressing impatience, even if half of the class is totally unable to hear a word of what the lecturer is saying. Banging of note books on the benches and heavy stamping of feet may be indicative of the extreme disgust which inspires the class when the instructor threatens wholesale distribution of E's, but it is not gentlemanly and polite conduct which would be naturally expected from upper classmen...
However inaudible and unintelligible the lecturer's words may be, however hostile his methods may appear to our interests as students of argumentative composition, let us, at least, show that we can act in a manner becoming gentlemen at Harvard...
...opinion or the contribution of information by members of the University on all subjects that may appropriately be brought before college men in a college newspaper. But obviously the editors are always obliged to use discretion in determining the propriety of the subjects discussed, and, beyond that, of the manner in which the discussion is carried on. While there is rarely any question as to the former, there sometimes is as to the latter and communications have to be rejected on that account. While we are always glad to give both sides of a case a full hearing and never...