Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman were spoken for the audience (hearers), wigwagged for the "optience" (seers). Senator Copeland and Mayor LaGuardia had the novel experience of addressing a crowd which neither heard nor heeded them but kept its eyes glued on a man who gave a running interpretation in manual alphabet-sign language...
...dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
...nothing is Vassily "excellent" or "very good." He barely skinned through his oral arithmetic, written arithmetic, oral Russian, written Russian, history, biology and German. In these he was "fair." the lowest Bolshevik mark short of just passing. But Vassily is "good" at Russian literature, geography, physics, geometry and manual training. As a sop to Bolshevik censorship Correspondent Barnes stoutly declared Vassily is "one of those all-around boys who are interested in many things besides school work...
Success at Any Price (RKO) is a manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint...
...trips to the Watertown Arsenal are justified on the grounds that in the government's plant the students become acquainted with the very latest developments in the metallurgy and gain essential practical knowledge first-hand. Students on the other hand claim that the work in the Arsenal is mostly manual labor and that the Engineering School is degenerating into a trade school...