Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first contact with the man whose vigor has wrought many changes in the college within two short years, President Conant. The subject of his speech "independent thinking" is one which has seen frequent treatment at Harvard but the sincerity and earnestness which underlay his remarks disclose with clarity the manner of man that occupied the President's office...
Should Richard and Henry Ames have died in an ordinary manner, their deaths would have come as an irreparable loss to Harvard; but the acts of heroism with which they gave up their lives make their story a living force for their College...
...duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie's career, it does outline the problem in a manner calculated to provoke thoughtful speculation...
...That we protest against and declare that we will not be bound by the 'Potato Control Law,' an unconstitutional measure recently enacted by the United States Congress. We shall produce on our own land such potatoes as we may wish to produce and will dispose of them in such manner as we may deem proper...
...wreck, he went back to Santa Monica on crutches where he cured himself with the climate and a sober study of Buddhism. For many years director of the Santa Monica Community Theatre and the Los Angeles Art Students' League, he gradually gave up beard, long hair and artistic mannerisms, adopted a hard, exact manner of drawing that showed a strong Oriental influence...