Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island, and Connecticut, no trace has been found of Neff since he boarded a New London bound trolley at Stonington, Conn., Monday night. Those who are not acquainted with the missing Senior, are asked to keep a sharp lookout for any person resembling him or acting in a conspicuous manner. Neff's description follows: Age 21. Height 5 ft. 10 in. Weight 165. Medium brown hair, out short. Bluish-grey eyes. Believed to be wearing a single-breasted suit of dark brown or grayish mixture. He is known to have been wearing a hat but no overcoat. No luggage. Those...
...Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...
Customarily the manner of the Right Honorable Neville Chamberlain is cold and his delivery precise, but none could doubt his intense emotion when he cried: "It is a very terrible thing to think that today out of every 250 mothers, one dies in childbirth, and that this state of things has persisted for the last 20 years. . . . Meanwhile the general death rate has decreased from 14 per 1,000 to 12.3 and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 89 to 70 per 1,000. . . . Clearly the time has come when a great new effort ought to be made [Cries...
Having painted in almost every conceivable manner almost everything which lies upon the surface of the earth, painters are still at liberty to go under the sea for subjects. One such is Olive Earle, whose more decorative paintings of its teeming and extraordinary life were shown last week in Brooklyn. Her Bermuda group contained an oil canvas of the strange Deep Sea Squirrel Fish; from California, she had retrieved Kelp at Santa Catalina; her water colors included a portrait of Sea Anemones, bending in a warm current, and a cool atmospheric painting, Color under...
Janey's insistence is cut short by the arrival of her Anglo-Saxon swains, who defy all manner of peril and whisk her off in the very plane that brought her. Her ingratitude for their bravery displays itself in scenes and sorrowings, until her hero appears in the night, tracked to her very window by posses of police...