Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steelman Taylor was nonplussed at the point-blank manner in which Senators questioned him. He retreated behind generalities: "I think the surplus of raw materials is our greatest menace. . . . Industrialists are a confident people, a hopeful people. They believe in the future of this country. We're trying to find the remedy...
...were both handled with complete lack of tack, and in a way calculated to promote friction. When five hundred students of City College attempted to present a petition to their president, they were refused admittance. No effort was or has been made to settle the matter in a sensible manner with some regard for the feeling of the undergraduates. To deny them the privillege of petition was hardly the way to win them over to the side of the Administration. Nor was the affair at N.Y.U. dealt with in a much more intelligent fashion. The Student Senate, apparently determined...
...first period, the score was 2-2, an indication of the manner in which the game was played up to that point. After the first period and a half, however, Dartmouth weakened, and from then on play was more or less slow. The apparent lack of substitutes for the visitor was a decisive factor in their defeat, for it was evident that the regular player were wearied by the first twenty minutes of fast skating...
...discussion euphoniously headed "Debunkery and Biography," replies somewhat obliquely to the recent efforts of Barnard Devote '20, instructor in English, on that same subject. It is not the point of view diametrically opposite to Mr. DeVote's; but in arguing in favor of modern biography in a loss extreme manner, it develops stronger brief for the maligned disciples of Strachey...
From Buenos Aires the Ministry of Agriculture reported that, despite every known manner of fighting locusts, they and drought have destroyed over 25% of Argentina's present corn crop, leaving only 10,625,000 harvestable acres, the smallest crop in years...