Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition to "defensive treaties" and King Leopold's strict neutrality speech, have left France with a rather sour taste in her mouth. The final blow to "collective security" and other such methods designed to freeze the "status quo" in Europe has been delivered courageously by Brussels in no uncertain manner. The Belgians have no wish to be drawn into a future world war through defensive pacts or entangling alliances, which they consider are as detrimental to their own welfare as to the peace of Europe...
...deliberation, in line with the best traditions of American democracy. President Roosevelt has proven by his words and actions that he believes the function of law-making should reside in the executive, without the interference of Congress or the Supreme Court. It is childish to hope, in the manner of the New York Times, that the President has had his fling, and will don robes of respectable conservatism if reelected. In the past he has changed his method of attack many times, but never his philosophy of government...
Considerable of the blame, however, must be laid to the Harkness House architects, who drew up blue prints for the new dormitories without moldings. If you can't hang a picture in the approved manner, you have to tack it to the wall or not hang...
...more interest than the ordinary straw vote. The activites of Harvard students in the campaign of recent weeks the Landon-Knox Club, the First Voters League, the Roosevelt organizations, all show a ferment of undergraduate opinion unusual in a university accustomed to taking its politics in the coolest manner...
Novel at least in the manner of its telling, File on Bolitho Blane gets under way slowly as Kettering's reports first establish that almost everybody on board the yacht had some good reason for wanting Blane killed. The cast of characters includes two rival financiers, a count, a bishop, a British philanthropist, a Japanese promoter, a secretary, two young ladies, and the evidence apparently involves them all impartially. The solution of the mystery-by a detective on shore from the same evidence that is made available to the reader-is sealed in the back of each volume...