Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noting that the New Testament contains no description of Christ's appearance, Devoe insists that it does tell "enough about the manner of his speech and the habits of his days to give us at least the surety that he was not frail, not pale, not piously smirking, not actorishly barbered and finical. He was one who spoke homely and strong...
...honor system eliminates tension caused by proctoring or by the feeling of suspicion if one leaves the exam. "We are proud of this honor system privilege as it distinguishes Radcliffe from other schools and from Harvard," she said. "Ours is a mature type of exam because it approximates the manner in which we live after college...
...lacing public activity with private. The way to deal with inflation is to reduce the amount of money at the disposal of, consumers, not to reduce tax rates as the Republicans did in the inflationary periods of the twenties and as the 80th Congress did in 1948; and the manner of the ballasting the economy in depression and deflation is not the Hoover policy of economy, but the Roosevelt policy of deficit financing...
More was at stake than election polls, which are only a small part of the business of Gallup, Roper et al. The whole $25 million-a-year industry of polling, which employs 10,000 people and serves up "scientific" answers on buying habits, audience reactions, and all manner of likes & dislikes for Hollywood, businessmen, educators, magazines, etc., was under suspicion...
This new biography of Victoria, which is Bolitho's ninth about this period, has nothing of Strachey's amused, amusing manner, nothing of his skepticism and silky grace. Above all, it does not contain a single sentence that even runs a risk of being thought dangerously brilliant. All present or accounted for are the famous, fascinating figures of the great era-Baron Stockmar, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, et al.-and so frigidly correct that they appear to have been hewn from frozen blocks of Birds...