Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift of the Class of 1913, will be known as the John C. Gray Collection, in memory of a former member of the Law School faculty. For the purpose, a wing of the Law School library reading room was entirely redecorated and refurnished so far as possible in the manner of a home library. The architect was John W. Ames, Harvard '92, of Cambridge, Mass...
...China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "observed a schoolboy behaving in an unbecoming manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
...This work will be dealing with a far larger body of men than heretofore and hence will be less directly influential. But if coaches can see the "sport for sport's sake" ideal of the plan, they will fit into their new niches in much the same manner, at least in the individual sports, as club professionals. Their tenure will be secure, and their indirect influence vastly greater than at present...
...There is no better way to understand such problems as social security and relief, the government and transportation, and the influence of pressure groups, "Dean Hanford said, "than by talking them over with well-informed persons in an informal manner around a table or in a conference room under condition which permit a fresh presentation of various points of view...
...book skimps none of the realities in the life of a master realist. At five, having been carefully deceived as to the manner of birth of his sister Maria, Diego was discovered in the kitchen making an incision into a mouse's belly. At eight, he caused even greater consternation when he and Maria were found playing house with the doll-like corpse of a brother who died in infancy...