Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything was run off last Saturday in an orthodox manner with no upsets except possibly Downer's being able only to get a third in the 200-meters dash in which he was led to the tape by Johnson of Dartmouth and Charles Cretzmeyer...
...satisfactorily will be allowed, subject to the individual veto of the Department concerned, to skip Mathematics A, Latin B, of theGreek B, and French 2 (French E next year). In Chemistry, Physics, and Biology such students will be given advanced standing beyond that of the ordinary Freshman in some manner not yet determined. In History it will still be impossible to pass off History 1 in school no matter how much preparation has been done. The same is of course true in Sociology, Psychology, Economics and other Departments not represented by a College Board Examination...
...care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number one. The next is a business marriage in which the wedded couple don't mean business. Then there are those awful namby-pamby European counts, who are always such a trial...
Awarded. To Brooklyn Matador Sidney Franklin: a $7,000 judgment against Columbia Pictures Corp., whose cinema Throwing the Bull used his name in a "jeering, jocular and undignified manner'' (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934); by the New York State Court of Appeals, in Albany...
...this meet Harvard, as usual, fought under the National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, and it is the manner in which Yale interpreted these rules that caused the H.A.A. to break an athletic relationship harmonious for 41 years. In 1895 all athletic contests were cancelled, but this break was healed after two years...