Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devoted to an improvement of Dr. Fowler's "Modern English Usage." He begins with "who" and "whom" and concludes in crescendo on adverbial advice. In all departments the author shows himself a thorough master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
There has already appeared an increasing tendency towards placing the emphasis more and more on the school as the final phase in education. The attitude of Mr. Winsor at Middlesex and Dr. Perry at Exeter exemplify this trend, and one also finds in the public schools an increase in manual training. It may be that this tendency contains the solution to one of America's greatest educational problems...
...Within two years Blake had 300 subscribers and moved from a small room in Laidlaw & Co.'s office into independent offices. In 1913 the Babson Stock & Bond Card System was acquired, and rapid growth followed. The entire statistical industry was expanding at this time, other leaders including Poor Manual Co. (oldest of all) ; John Moody's Service, pioneer in investment ratings and organized investment counsel; Brookmire Service, oldest economic advisory service ; Roger Ward Babson; Arthur Elliott of National Quotation Bureau...
...stayed away from the reproachful glances of his family as much as possible, though in mid-summer of this year he suffered the humiliation of moving them into two furnished rooms. In September, his savings were all gone. Now for the first time he was willing to accept manual labor, any labor. He was lonely, afraid, undergoing a mental and moral breakdown. But he could not find...
...simple passion for their complicated, smooth-running luxury. As insatiably curious as the Elephant's Child, he had nosed out everything he could about the "luxury hotel." Imperial Palace's 769 pages, besides comprising a fine novel, contain enough information on hotel management to serve as a manual...