Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Inglewood, Calif. Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars which resembled ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train, but which were mounted on their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each...
This is photosynthesis, the manner in which green plants create organic food substance from carbon dioxide and water, in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll. Chlorophyll, which does not take part in the transformation, is nevertheless the catalyst or activating force which makes it possible. All animals, including man, get their sustenance directly or indirectly from the energy stored by green plants. Thus if it were not for the chemical reaction summarized in the above equation, no life on earth could exist...
...Double Wedding" should draw the approval of all admirers of the principal actors. Despite a tendency for the presentation to lose integration in the complexities of its plot, especially at the end, the central pair carry it all off in their urbane manner, as nonchalantly as the penniless artist who lives in a raccoon coat and a trailer should...
THESE poems do not, as some critics have asserted, show particular technical incompetence. Doubtless even in the 18th contury when critic and publisher were more fastidious, technically Mr. Hillyer's couplets would have been printable, although their manner would have been considered peculiar. This manner (I mean by manner a mingling of substance and style), however, because of its diffilusiveness and giddiness is discouraging...
...world's first All-American Dance Band. Composed only of orchestra leaders who attended college and play instruments, it is a band that would please swingsters and waltzers alike. COLLEGIATE DIGEST is particularly proud to be the nation's first publication to honor these men of note in this manner and we only wish we could get them all together to entertain you at a super-deluxe swing session...