Word: manual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard volunteer is given the position for which he believe himself best fitted. The athlete has a definite place coaching boxing, wrestling, tumbling, and basketball. Those otherwise inclined can lead science groups, hobby clubs (stamps, nature, music), and manual training classes, as well as debating and dramatics...
...Ohio, Arthur W. Aleshire of Springfield, although paralyzed from hips down, operates a filling station from a wheelchair and, like Franklin Roosevelt, drives an automobile by means of manual controls. Running as a Democrat with Union Party support, Mr. Aleshire defeated Representative Leroy Marshall, Republican who had survived the Democratic landslides...
...lucky hit by a rebel bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers had fled fortnight ago to Barcelona and this week the London Times indicated that Premier Largo Caballero's jig was up, thus: "Great Britain now considers with less hesitation the prospect of recognizing the Government of Franco inasmuch as the Madrid Government...
Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
Last week Dr. Seabury included such excellent incitements to worry in his optimistic, informal, 358-page manual on the art of worrying as it is done under the guidance of experts. Like most such cheerful volumes, How to Worry Successfully contains a great deal of helpful advice that is almost certain to drive into a frenzy anyone worried about anything more serious than a bad cold or a ticket for overtime parking. It also contains some practical observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make...