Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional provincialism of youthful college smugness. Of course the graduate schools are not in need of the Salvation Army or the Red Cross. But these men who come here to Harvard and are to carry the name of the University on their degrees should realize in some manner the spirit of the place and in some manner, tied as they are to their professional work, appreciate that delightful existence which can be enjoyed at Cambridge. If this be heresy, make the most...
Coming to a small New England School, fettered with all the traditional inhabitions of the early American classical college, William Jewett Tucker strove valiantly and in no fin de siecle manner to give his college the breadth and enrichment which he knew it lacked. So the Dartmouth undergraduate of today owes to Dr. Tucker the benefits which are to him Dartmouth...
...northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding out" the "navigable semicircle" at anchor. Due to the rotating movement of the earth, all these hurricanes revolve (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) in a manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer...
...provisions of this agreement affecting candidates shall be made public in such manner as the Advisory Committee shall determine...
...Hotel Alabaster, his newly wed wife in Room 1914, his careless, former sweetheart in Room 1912, and the best of the worst will ensue. Every time hubby is on the point of explaining all, some one knocks at the door. Hugh Wakefield cleverly stutters, gasps, grimaces, after the established manner of approved farce-comedy spouses. Pretty Marion Coakley contributes a vivid piece of work as the unextinguished Hollywood flame in Room 1912. All this is something of a disappointment to theatregoers who remember a previous play of Martin Flavin's, Children Of The Moon. Yet it is as good...