Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government officials and our press appear to be behaving like a pair of sulky boys who have been bested in a foot race. The moon race can teach us Americans a lesson in humility, which is probably more valuable than first place in a prestige contest...
...when the news broke that Nixon was the beneficiary of a trust fund put up for him by California admirers. Preparing for his "Checkers" television explanation to the nation, Nixon used Rogers as a sounding board. Said Nixon later: "In that talk, Bill was advising me on how to appear before a jury, the greatest jury. I liked to throw ideas around to get his judgment on what should be said to the jury...
...girl was pretty, but like most Asians she had a heavy-lidded look. At their widest, her eyes did not appear to open as wide as a Caucasian's; half-closed, her lids showed no crease or fold running across them, and her lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...
With these two starters unavailable, and the services of guard Hal Anderson still indefinite, the varsity would appear to be headed toward certain defeat at the hands of a rugged Penn squad which although still looking for its first win, is a far better team than its record would indicate...
...social and geographical distribution are generally obvious to the present generation of the College, it was not so very long ago that Harvard men proudly boasted that the College was dedicated to the intelligent son of the rich father who also had gone to Harvard. Lest this attitude appear to be an almost forgotten relic of the Gold Coast days, it should be realized that at the present time Harvard College is very definitely moving in the direction of becoming, as the Admissions office speculated a month ago, "the intelligent rich man's college...