Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast in an unusual manner. The waves do not leave the station via an aerial strung outside the transmitting building, but follow wires strung along the tracks, When they reach a point opposite the speeding train...
...this point a suave voice from London intruded: "We are now taking you back to the Carleton Hotel, for dance music." What befuddled Commander Woodrooffe was trying to describe was the manner in which, at a single blink from the flagship Nelson, every ship in the review suddenly flashed out with myriad lines of lights which, at another signal, blacked out completely. A moment later at a third signal hundreds of searchlights swept the night firmament in amazing patterns...
...Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark has long given more than a tithe of his in come to the church. His parting suggestion to North Baptism, which delegates approved...
Dartmouth's baseball team, with its record of seven league wins, was bound to get beaten sooner or later; but the manner in which the Big Blue turned the trick made one forget about the Hanover, and wonder whether or not the Commencement Day games aren't to be even tougher than the double-header with the Green...
...Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence is impossible due to the fact that they are nine-tenths dead and full...