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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioning the former Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignore Seipel, you had to use the words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Compared to this second design, the fantastic curtain revel-in fact the whole Chicago opera organization-becomes no more than Punch-&-Judy. Yet it is Punch-&-Judy on the very largest scale. To make the scale larger, the Chicago company is sent, in the Insull manner, all over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...might a shrewd crook use a dignified manner, well-cut clothes, a gold-headed cane, proper language and a pretended association with a great public character to swindle a famed jeweler? One way might be to take the following steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...each of these gatherings, to which all members of the University are invited, there are present a number of professors and their wives, for the purpose of making contact with students in a manner social rather than educational...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST UNIVERSITY TEA TO BE GIVEN ON FRIDAY | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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