shootingstar
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STAGE MANAGER: . . .
Along here's a row of stores. Hitching posts and horse blocks in front of them. First automobile's going to come along in about five years - belonged to Banker Cartwright, our richest citizen . . . lives in the big white house up on the hill.
Here'sthe grocery store and here's Mr. Morgan's drugstore. Most everybody in town manages to look into those two stores once a day.
. . .
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act I)
What does manages to look mean there?. Isn't there any adverb to the verb look that could replace the verb manage in this context? I suspect there is one but I cannot think of one unfortunately.
Along here's a row of stores. Hitching posts and horse blocks in front of them. First automobile's going to come along in about five years - belonged to Banker Cartwright, our richest citizen . . . lives in the big white house up on the hill.
Here'sthe grocery store and here's Mr. Morgan's drugstore. Most everybody in town manages to look into those two stores once a day.
. . .
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act I)
What does manages to look mean there?. Isn't there any adverb to the verb look that could replace the verb manage in this context? I suspect there is one but I cannot think of one unfortunately.
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