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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem over to the law?or rather the lawyers? of the land. Certainly the defrauded banks were sadly tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that it could ever have been obtained. Should they consider it their duty to their depositors to keep this money, many a fine legal mind will soon be struggling with the problem of whether a certified check is credit or money?whether it is a promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waggoner's Gesture | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation of the traditionally wholesome Rooseveltian manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Roosevelts | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Journalistic historians last week looked back to see what manner of newspaper was the Virginia Gazette of colonial times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In San Francisco | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...advices, both Foreign and Domestick," was printed by William Parkes whose daughter Eleanor later became the mother-in-law of Statesman Patrick Henry. Mr. Parkes described himself as a "Printer, by whom subscriptions are taken . . . at 15 shillings per Ann. And Book Binding is done reasonably, in the best manner." The issues, 7˝ in. wide by 12˝ in. long, contained but four pages (one sheet folded like letter paper), with two columns on each page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In San Francisco | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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