Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marcel Rosenberg, first Soviet Ambassador to the Spanish Republic, handpicked the Largo Caballero Cabinet . . . Although the people of Madrid know little about Russia it has become the fashion for them to do nearly everything in what they hope is the Russian manner. Government militiamen, receiving ten pesetas per day, eagerly purchase with their earnings peaked caps decorated with the Communist star, similar to those worn by soldiers in the Soviet Army...
...exams, for though they might raise the level of future knowledge in the course, they would destroy the freedom now offered to the student. The purpose of the Saturday classes, then, is not to discipline a man's work, but to better his grasp of the subject. In no manner compulsory, they are to be managed by the two capable assistants in English...
...tracing the silverware in this manner, the 17th century is shown to have a far wider variety than its successors. Often there is an almost medieval air to the articles made in this period...
Best of all, however, is the contrast which the part of the travelling salesman, acted in a most lively manner by Paul Killiam, offers to the Prophet. It is, of course, the part of the prophet Jonah himself which is the fat part in this entertaining play and Mr. John Weld entered into it with a naturalness and seriousness that were arresting, though perhaps he was a little too mild and good-natured for his vehement outbursts against the ladies of Nineveh or his anger against God when God proved more merciful to Nineveh than...
Connected with each electric chronometer is a regular clock with an automatic adjuster. If the current should be shut off and the telechron fall behind, it is not reset in the ordinary manner, but the automatic adjuster makes it function at twice its normal speed until it has caught up with the regular clock...