Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to make very great efforts to assist in the maintenance of peace when a determination to preserve peace is evidenced by the achievement of real measures for mutual and progressive disarmament. ... At the appropriate time we should be willing to ... give a more precise indication of the manner in which we consider that the United States can most effectively co-operate." Surely here was an achievement of the White House conferences. Foreign oracles quickly interpreted this statement as a bargain between M. Herriot and President Roosevelt that the U. S. was willing to abandon its traditional Isolation and help...
...commanding officer, presently makes him feel that to do so would be despicable. The lieutenant therefore brutally and gallantly insults his inamorata-to make her hate him-and then dies a hero's death by driving his boat, loaded with explosives, into an enemy fortification-much after the manner of two of the principals in Today We Live. All this is as implausible as it is fancy, hut what is neither implausible nor fancy in Hell Below are scenes in the control room of the submarine with men dying slowly of chlorine gas; torpedoes arrowing smoothly toward German mine...
...another manner, as well, the Critic has failed to maintain the policies which formed its original excuse for being; it has to a large extent, ceased "to criticize the University and its policies." While essays on general subjects of national or international interest are unquestionably readable, they do not represent the most efficacious mode of expression of a publication such as the Critic. It is the only undergraduate publication devoted entirely to articles and essays; it is in touch with undergraduate affairs; while comments on the state of the world are best to be found in such magazines...
...equality; yet no nation as strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces are breaking it at every seam. MacDonald's thesis seems right: it is better to redesign this coat in a peaceful manner than wait for a duel to kill the owner and his neighbors...
...Reed of Greenwich Village who went to Russia and today lies buried in the Kremlin wall. They had one daughter. In 1930 they, too, were divorced. Mr. Bullitt continued to travel in Europe every year, keeping up his personal contacts in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. His mind and manner seemed to please foreign statesmen as he told them what the U. S. was thinking and doing. In 1926 he published a novel (It Can't Be Done). Among his unproduced plays is one about the political life of Woodrow Wilson. He has a home at Ashfield, Mass, where...