Word: mode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Power. Cayley was convinced that if he could find the proper engine, he could make his machine fly. "The best mode of producing the propelling power," he wrote, "is the only thing that remains yet untried towards the completion of the invention ... I feel perfectly confident that this noble art will soon be brought home to man's general convenience, and that we shall be able to transport ourselves and families and their goods and chattels more securely by air than by water, and with a velocity of from 20 to 100 miles per hour. To produce this...
...which would authorize or permit them to take part." ¶ The new church must confess belief in the Trinity and must administer the "two sacraments instituted by Christ"-the Eucharist and baptism. "It will not be necessary, I trust, for a precise doctrinal agreement to be reached about the mode of operation of the sacraments...
Most gospel singers tend to hitch their style to one type of gospel belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
Sometimes he painted her in the style of his Blue Period, other times rather in the mode of Toulouse-Lautrec. By 1918 Picasso and Fernande had parted, and that year he married the dancer Olga Koklova, by whom he had his son Paolo...
...Snow is devoted to the top-secret novel. His characters do not meet, they rendezvous. Even their platitudes are guarded. They discuss the time of day as if it were classified information. This conspiratorial mode apparently suits Charles Percy Snow, who seems to view life as a vast intrigue in which men endlessly scheme for everything, from women and wealth to positions of academic, bureaucratic and managerial power...