Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disclosure by the Senate of their August idyl quickly brought "the boys" into the spotlight. That night the six Congressmen notified Senator Black: "We divided and paid the expenses in the same manner any group of men maintaining 'bachelor quarters' would do. Any inference that we were guests of Mr. Smith or anyone else is entirely contrary to the facts. . . . Mr. Smith represented to the group that he was interested in conservation and irrigation in the West...
...total membership as the question of national affiliation was. The majority vote for "strike" causes some measure of sorrow. If the college approves, against what is the so-called strike directed? Another full-blooded word seems to be loosing its vitality through corruption of meaning, in a manner reminiscent of once expressive adjectives appropriated by the film industry...
Probably the most finished dancing number is the Apache dance done in convincing manner by Benjamin Welles, II '38 and Camman Newberry '37. John C. Develin '38 virtually steals the show, juggling with enough skills to make W. C. Fields look carefully to his laurels. He tops this off with an expert tap dancing...
...Rust last week, "and picked cotton when we were boys. We decided then that we would try to invent a machine that would do this back-breaking toil. We have that machine. It will do the work of 50 to 100 men. Thrown on the market in the manner of past inventions, it would mean, in the share-cropped country, that 75% of the labor population would be thrown out of employment. We are not willing that this should happen. How can we prevent...
Surety bonding turns upon the completion of contracts. This business covers everything from the delivery of lumber to the painting of a house. National Surety also writes all manner of burglary business, insuring private homes, stocks of merchandise, paymasters, even covering the breakage of plate glass windows, doors, and glass signs. It does not handle any accident insurance, fire insurance or life insurance. Last year National Surety Corp. took in $9,134,000 in premiums, paid out $3,424,000 in losses. It made $959,000 on its policies. It also made $302,000 selling securities, received $458,000 from...