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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace each other in the manner President Dawson suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Noah, Jonah & Howard College | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Willoughby brings out in an anthoritative manner the circumstances under which many of the lighthouses were first suggested, engineering difficulties which in several cases threatened failure, disasters to lighthouse property and personnel, heroic deeds of keepers in times of peril to their lives, and many local legends. Among the most interesting aspects of this volume are the many stories of human interest which are scattered throughout the pages and their interplay with the histories of the lighthouses themselves. While thus making the work invaluable for reference purposes Mr. Willoughby has been able to avoid loading down his pages with dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Seamen | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...stopped displaying Mrs. Eddy. Simultaneously The New Republic, Manhattan liberal weekly, appeared with an article by Newspaperman Craig F. Thompson of the New York World, entitled "The Christian Science Censorship." Said Newspaperman Thompson: "The Church maintains in every state . . . a Committee on Publication . . . 'to correct in a Christian manner injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scientific Censorship | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...direction and staging are at a safe distance from the amateurish. The Mannock library, thrice appearing looks as it should, like the room of a political and unliterary owner. The dream scene in Act II is presented in a properly confused manner, and the nook mid sunny spots of greenery, where the Rt. Hon. Selby Mannock grows romantic, beyond doubt is the sort of place where that sort of man would do precisely that...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: "SUCCESS" ACCEPTABLY PRESENTED | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

Needless to say, it is a physical impossibility to treat such a question creditably in the short time allotted. The test was so phrased as to allow the sufficiently prepared man no adequate opportunity to present his knowledge in a manner equal to the preparation and time expended. The type of examination, the evident mismanagement as to the assigned reading, and the requirement of a 5000-word thesis the week following the examination only add to the general dissatisfaction over having a December Hour examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY 2 | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

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