Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting point of the letter is not this view, it is the manner in which it is expressed. Mr. Conant does not argue the case for repeal. Once his opinion is stated, he drops the issue completely. What follows is an astute bit of mancuvering calculated to put Mr. Landon--and, of course, the embargo bloc as a whole--neatly on the spot. His words show a masterful knowledge of American political machinations...
...strictly according to schedule the reels unwound. In this instalment the world was to learn what the Nazi-Communist Armies' division of Poland was to be. It found out (see p. 29). All manner of meaning lay upon that carving, who got what, and why; how closely Hitler and Stalin were collaborating, and for how long; in which direction, if any, Stalin planned to go-and here was the answer, more perplexing than the problem itself. Next question: What would Hitler say after he had conquered Poland...
...Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the earth as a massive rock or a tree. Fiene speaks much in the same manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem as if they might revolve for all eternity. And out of this maelstrom chimneys point upward like...
...Princeton Man, yes. You could hardly miss him. Tweeds and a good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...
...that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have to be a mon ster vocabulary requiring a lifetime to master. Dr. Neurath feels that this Tower of Babel can be overstepped by developing a common grammar of science-a unified manner of scientific exposition-so that one savant can understand another if he looks up the unfamiliar words...