Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the clarity of this fault, no remedy has been taken since "it might lower the standards of a degree." The schools should give this training; there is no reason why Harvard should demand one less course for a degree, so the argument goes. Sidetracking the dispute in this manner not only fails to settle the problem but fails to hit at the root of the error...
...Freshman Report also raised the question of whether it was necessary to make English A-1 such an elementary course. Couldn't it accomplish its object of teaching men to write their mother tongue in a fairly accurate and facile manner amid more grown-up surroundings. After all, no Freshman is expected to be a complete dolt...
...happened in this manner: I purchased a number of "Auto Jokers" from a salesman. These are a gadget attached to the spark plugs on a car. When someone steps on the starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
...wish to add immediately and in the most explicit and solemn manner that we will send out all the soldiers we believe necessary. And no one can take upon himself the intolerable presumption to dictate to us concerning the character and volume of our precautionary measures...
...school of U. S. writers which believes that toughness can cover a multitude of weakly sins, Michael Fessier is the latest exponent. Last week his first novel, Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind tried to show skeptical readers that a hard-boiled manner could make even a fairytale come true. The result was more like a parody than a parable-as if General Hugh Johnson had written his code version of one of the rayon-gossamer fables of Oscar Wilde. But readers who were stunned into shocked attention by The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME...