Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Reed referred to the undergraduate enterprise as the best way the college undergraduate can keep himself in touch with current topics of national importance." He stressed the significance of obtaining this information concerning politics, economics and foreign affairs in "a first-hand manner," rather than "through textbooks and periodicals which are often out of date before reaching the hands of the public...
...most important acquisitions of any of the college museums this year was the recent purchase by the Fogg Museum of 24 terra cotta statuettes in the manner of the great 17th century culptor. Bernini. Known in Italy as the Piancastelli Collection, they were first brought to this country in 1905 and are the largest group of such work outside of Rome...
...films apiece ready to join the U. S. Easter cinema parade. Of the four, the two less pretentious cost $450,000 each, represented the good homespun handiwork of which the British industry is capable when it is not making quota quickies or trying to imitate Hollywood's grand manner. The others were, important because they 1) cost about $1,000,000 each, and 2) showed it in varying ways. The best two were laid in Scotland, and both involved...
...party of fishermen put out to sea; later, the men in one of the canoes sighted a shark and immediately anchored. . . . Presently a shark swallowed one of the bait, but in pulling the shark managed to cut the line. Subsequently, more than 20 lines were cut in this manner, which proved a source of great mystery to the expert fishermen...
...Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome-Berlin axis, and the friendly manner in which the two strong men goose-step arm in arm and kid each other about colonies, is among the best touches of the production...