Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from these few points, however, your article is most accurate and sets the spirit of the book as I intended it in a manner most gratifying...
...President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear him speak, though they knew the candidate from Veracruz had no chance of being elected. But Tejeda's hard bitten face and manner notably lacked the routine apathy of a Mexican Opposition candidate. Hoarsely he ranted on about the Government's "treachery against the proletariat." On the platform lolled 25 of his red-shirted Left Socialist stalwarts. On the outskirts of the crowd 100 "regular" Party men eyed Tejeda coldly, fingered their revolvers...
...though Congress may not be adverse to making a direct appropriation. It is not believed that more than $500,000,000 will be needed to launch the enterprise and provision doubtless will be made for the sale of such capital to the banks in much the same manner as arranged when the Federal Reserve system was established...
...Springs, Ohio, to continue the great work of Horace Mann. This period of only two years is portrayed in the biography by many personal letters from and to the President. His troubles with the financial and sectarian situation, eventually leading to his decision to resign, are told in a manner which brings out his great ability and the exceedingly trying conditions under which he had to work. The letters from Hill gave in a way which no amount of second-hand writing can, the true character and nature of this man. And yet one does not have the impression that...
...half of the book that much is told of his personal and unofficial affairs. The story of his life as head of Harvard is limited to his academic struggles, and not until a later chapter is the other side of his life revealed. At first one may question this manner of narration, but had the details of his non-official life been included in the saga of his official duties, an extremely interesting story of education would have been impeded by irrelevancy...