Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commending TIME for its good work in putting out real news in the manner which must appeal to men of the military services, and with best wishes for its continued success, I am FRANK M. HENDRICKS...
...revealed yesterday in a survey of the grounds. Under the direction of Assistant Professor of Chemistry George B. Kistiakowsky, these men, veiled in secrecy and unwilling to divulge their plans, have completed a complicated mass of apparatus, that it is hoped will measure in a more direct and accurate manner the amount of heat evolved in a chemical change, and expect to be several years in perfecting the apparatus. The Rockefeller Institute has put up an unknown amount of money to build the apparatus and to use it for research...
...Communist Party which is technically superior to both and retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it"; to refuse to harbor on Russian soil any group "which makes claim...
...connected with the traditions of the American community. Monday is more a social custom and a habit than a deliberately designed instrument to control human behavior, but the men attempting to regulate our monetary system do not seem to realize this. They treat the question in a purely theoretical manner, and instead of putting men of practical judgment who have the confidence of the people in control of the situation, they give to into the hands of brilliant, but unreliable and rarely understood, innovators, and thus lose the confidence of an already overexcited and distrustful nation...
Salisbury's nephew, Arthur James Balfour, "preserved throughout his life a graceful indolence of manner, the habit of lying abed until noon, and that of never reading a newspaper, even as Prime Minister." Maurois quotes Balfour's typical remark: "I am more or less happy when being praised; not very uncomfortable when being abused; but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained...