Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly President von Hindenburg may esteem Foch as a military man, the German people simply would not understand why he should pay tribute to the man who at Compiegne so deeply humiliated the German Armistice Commission. It is not his qualities of a soldier that we question but the manner in which he 'rubbed in' his authority...
...nearly 20 years Dr. Norman Hutton was St. Chrysostom's rector. He was famed for his scholarly, dignified manner. His tact quelled brewing intramural quarrels. His persuasiveness brought much money to the church which he remodeled and enlarged. Last September, however, he resigned and Dr. Abbott succeeded...
Rector Abbott's manner is dynamic. Like his brother, Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville, he inclines towards brusque action. Where Dr. Hutton had been mild and diffident, Rector Abbott seemed vigorously urgent, especially when his church needed money...
...result are spending a large amount of their time on theses in their special field. With both of these falling due within a period of approximately two weeks the Senior inevitably turns from his larger work to fulfill the course requirement in the easiest and most rapid manner possible. This can hardly be of any great value to the student doing such work, or to the professor demanding...
...pocket veto practice is covered by Section 7, Article 1 of the U. S. Constitution: "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall...