Word: seem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadet when he enters stands alone unaided by anything but his own courage and character. That may seem dramatized but the situation is unique and results in the graduation of officers who possess a moral code and a fiber hardened by the granite existence of cadet life. It is only the strong who survive...
...must not be overlooked. For, unless a man puts his knowledge across to his students, he is merely a scholar, not a teacher. Again, should the political or social tendencies of teachers be permitted to affect their University position? If Harvard wants to practice liberality, such restriction does not seem just...
...Bias Contest," with Father Toomey among others in charge, in which $50 in prizes will be awarded to readers culling and commenting upon the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means of half truths, interpretations, implications...
Sally, Irene and Mary (Twentieth Century-Fox) lacks the timely zing that makes most Darryl Zanuck cinemusicals seem a little better than they are. Comic interludes are contributed by horn-beaked Jimmy Durante, startled-looking Fred Allen. Of a half-dozen tunes shared by Songstress Alice Faye and Crooner Husband Tony Martin, the Gordon-Revel Sweet As a Song is best...
Although this suggestion is economically sound, it may seem to be morally objectionable because it proposes that the University, a private institution, should tax some of its employees for the benefit of others. But by so doing, the University would merely be following the principles approved by Congress in the Social Security Act, which Harvard professes to accept as its own standard. If the University should choose to be guided by broad sociological considerations rather than by narrow logic, it will see that a policy of accepting the principle of security for the lowest paid and then failing to provide...