Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent." The natives ("they were afraid of us more in the manner in which you are afraid of a sudden terrific noise, than as you are afraid of suffering and death") she sees as primitives, not as savages...
Pioneer and innovator in many ways of presenting the news, TIME through its first 15 years has shown a degree of originality that has been refreshing and oftentimes delightful. I wish the magazine a long life in serving the public by disseminating accurate information written in a manner to keep the reader from drowsing...
Last week Judge Frederick W. Fosdick of the Massachusetts Superior Court handed down a decision holding that two good Bay State Democrats were guilty of accepting graft in a manner intelligible to the humblest citizen. One was James Michael Curley, thrice Mayor of Boston, once Governor of Massachusetts: the other his political satellite. Dr. Joseph Santosuosso, twice Democratic candidate for State Secretary of State...
...only this potent trio but a whole string of generals and Army officers of various ranks were retired or shifted to new commands last week by decision of the Führer. The whole crisis arose and was dealt with in a manner typical of the way nearly all great matters in the Fatherland today turn upon personal contacts with Adolf Hitler and his personal reactions. Much of the time the Führer is inaccessible to even extremely prominent officials, mystically cogitating in his Bavarian mountain retreat some 400 miles from Berlin. To get the ear of the Leader...
...Moscow, perpetually astounded Correspondent Walter Duranty experienced spasms of amazement at the diffident manner in which the drama was handled in the Soviet press. Cabled he: "Today each Moscow newspaper gives their plight 66 lines of print in a brief double column with a bald single headline. 'On Drifting Station of Comrade Ivan Papanin.' Can you beat...