Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church in the 4th century. One clue: the liberal use of the cross on the floor mosaics, a practice that the church prohibited A.D. 427 on the ground that the feet of worshipers profaned the sacred symbol. A second indication is the floor plan-a long rectangle in the manner of 4th century Roman temples. Definite dating must wait upon other scholars and future excavations...
Getty has taken care of his stockholders in the manner of many oil companies that pay small dividends, put profits into development. As a result, the investment in a single share of Getty Oil bought for $3 when Getty took over Pacific Western in 1932 is now worth $152, counting stock splits. In the same manner, Skelly Oil stock has risen from $26, when the company came into Getty's hands in 1937, to $231 today; Tidewater has marched forward from $19 in 1951 to $93 today...
...robust (5 ft. 11 in., 185 Ibs.), hearty man with a booming laugh and a frank manner, he can be both ruthless and devious in his striving for space. To some, Von Braun's transfer of loyalty from Nazi Germany to the U.S. seemed to come too fast, too easy. Von Braun's critics say he is more salesman than scientist; actually, he learned through the bitterest experience that his space dreams had to be sold ("I have to be a two-headed monster-scientist and public-relations man"). Others claim that the onetime boy wonder of rocketry...
...your own." The panel differed in its advice to a woman who wrote in about a semantic quibble with her husband, but Groucho cleared it up fast: "My suggestion is that she get rid of her husband." He dubbed Professor Evans "Bergie." After the guest expert, in the manner of his own show, kept asking whether letter writers were "married or single." Brown challenged him on his "obsession" with sex. Retorted Groucho: "It's not an obsession; it's a talent." As Evans bravely signed off by inviting viewers to "send us anything further to confuse...
...styles are scarcely comparable. Marx-Engels wrote in fire; Kelso-Adler seem to be writing under water. Yet the book achieves a triumph of grey matter over grey manner. Four points stand...