Word: manners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hertz feels that the application of isotope research to the cancer problem will be along "tracer" lines, since it has been demonstrated that the majority of cancerous thyroids do not take up the radioactive iodine in the manner in which do the glands of patients suffering from Gravea' disease...
What Bell Wrought. At 73, Editor Grosvenor is a frail-looking, energetic man with a neat white mustache, a Phi Beta Kappa key and the manner of a Boston Brahmin. Grosvenor was born (with a twin brother now dead) in Constantinople, where his father was a professor at Robert College. Fittingly enough, from his nursery window the future geographer could see two continents...
...Something regarded as unthinkable to any person of decorum. Wrote one turn-of-the-century authority with stiff finality: "No person familiar with Yale customs ever thinks of speaking to an undergraduate member even in the most indirect manner about his society or either of the others. To do so intentionally would be a serious affront...
...secretary within three weeks, secretary in less than a year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction of Avery and Government seizure of his plant...
Just what manner of man was this Briton Hadden who was voted the "most likely to succeed" by the same Yale class that voted Henry Luce the "most brilliant," and who proceeded, with Luce, to create 'Time' before he was twenty-four? Busch tolls you that he was an "editorial prodigy." By this, Busch seems to mean that from the first months of his life Hadden was possessed by the desire, and the ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious...