Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been waiting for August, thinking it a good month to bring this up. Then in September I'll take up my reading in the proper manner...
Used on a distant nebula, this speedometer indicated that it was traveling at the rate of 2,500 miles an unheard-of rate of speed even for astronomy. Mathematicians worked over this and other results to prove that the distant nebulae are in some manner tangled up in the outer folds of the universe, so that their light waves are being broadened by the Einstein effect rather than by their speed...
...those who regretted their decision two complained of the expense, two of the fact that they have made no worth whiel friendships, and others of the location of Cambridge, and the manner in which their particular courses were conducted...
Charles Nathaniel Haskell was not the great and good man of the Oklahoma Senate's resolution. Promoter and politician, he was forceful, clever, no better and no worse than the Oklahoma of his day. His political opponents charged him with all manner of crime and corruption, thus building up in the public prints the belief that scandal tainted his administration. Impeachment proceedings were started against four of his six successors, two of whom were removed from office. An attack by President Theodore Roosevelt on his honesty drove Haskell out as Democratic national treasurer. On rechecking, TIME finds its account...
...John Barrymore, after much face-making in the most approved Hollywood manner, has at last remembered that he is an excellent actor. His subtle and penetrating characterization in "Topaze" is now followed by another fine performance in "Reunion in Vienna," the piece de resistance at the University this week. Miss Wynyard turns in a capable and convincing performance as Eleana, as does Frank Morgan as her husband. May Robson is up to her usual high standard and the supporting cast is excellent...