Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs, the population of seemingly inaccessible parts of the earth. Personal independence of drudgery, allowance for a doubled leisure, a more civilized manner of existence, all depend on the Dymaxion House. Mr. Fuller has created the possibility of a new civilization, a new world of people, one only wonders with Shaw what man would do with his new found leisure...
...average New York voter bothers himself but little as to the manner in which his city is governed. The sins of an administration fail to register, except as dollars and cents out of his pocketbook. Graft of $100,000 was lately uncovered in the County Clerk's office. No public outcry followed. A favored group, through special fire regulations, controlled the sale of tank trucks for gasoline distribution in the city. Even the charge that this monopoly had chiseled $2,500,000 from the public left the voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME...
...President desires me to express to you his satisfaction with the efficient manner in which you and the other members of the delegation have fulfilled your instructions during the sixth meeting of the preparatory commission for a disarmament conference...
...wish to add my own appreciation of your excellent presentation of the views of the U. S. and the able manner in which you have contributed to the progress of the work of the commission and awakened new hopes of a practical means for the effective reduction of armaments...
...Elizabeth, decided that something should be done to stop the boys of St. Clement Danes choir school from wandering all over the city. The boys must stay within the boundaries of their own parish, said brisk Queen Bess, and they must learn where those boundaries lay in the following manner...