Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speculator is not much different from the boy who makes some bold dash for victory in his games. The close man who takes the outward things in earnest acts in a foolish manner. It is as if the children in the market place should take their artificial money for real and horde it away. You have a contempt for the boy who looses his temper at play; we should take an example from this in real life...
...mean to imply that we shall refuse obstinately all compromise. If Yale can point out clearly serious faults in our plan, and if a reasonable concession will promote the interests of athletics, it is safe to say that Harvard will show a fair spirit and act in a sportsmanlike manner. It should be borne in mind that Yale asked for a statement of Harvard's position in regard to the undergraduate question. Harvard has made this statement, but it is in no way a formal proposition to Yale...
Will the managers of the Whist Tournament allow a suggestion as to the manner of determining the winning two couples from each section? Two methods have been proposed, but both are opened to objection. If the decision is made on the basis of games won, the element of luck is unnecessarily large. A couple might lose two games and win the other. If they had kept their opponents' score down and made the most of their good cards, when they did come, they ought to reap the advantage...
Certain phases of English life in London and elsewhere, he set forward in a most vivid and entertaining manner. One almost felt that he was among the people himself, and was himself noting down their peculiarities of character, manner and custom. He spoke about the trial of Mrs. Besant; of various London Clubs which he visited; of an Oxford commemoration exercise he attended, and of different people he met, always noting the peculiar national traits, which are foreign to our American ideas...
...memorial concert to George William Curtis, and the numbers on the programme, especially the aria from Sampson, the Unfinished Symphony, and the funeral march from Gotterdommerung, were such as arouse in our minds associations of solemnity. In this respect the programme was an admirable exposition of the manner of expressing the same emotion by three widely different schools of musical composition,-the strictly classical school, the romantic school and the school of what fifteen years ago was called the Music of the Future." The first relies on form, the second on imaginative beauty, and the third on dramatic power...