Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: A little rumor came to my ears a few days ago that you had printed my letter rebuking you for leaving Maracay off the map of S. A. Evidently my efforts to make it well known weren't appreciated, for the powers that be seem annoyed. No one has seen that copy of TIME [Feb. 11]. I think you have been suppressed. Aren't you flattered? I am. In the event I am asked to leave these parts, I'll come around and tell you large earfuls of lovely gossip that would just sizzle the pages...
...reads Section 3 of the 18th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. To the lay mind it may not seem particularly funny, but last week it caused Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah some great−though very temporary−amusement...
...Puny seem man's efforts at law enforcement when Nature sweeps into the job. The swollen rivers of south Georgia last week, backing up through impenetrable swamps, floated off hundreds of hidden stills and moonshining camps long out of reach of U.S. agents. It was one of the biggest "dry raids" in the State, for the flood did in a few days the work of three times the number of Federal officers now on duty in that region. Literary 'leggers dolefully quoted G. K. Chesterton's Flying...
...present time, there does not seem to be any method for determining from preliminary test whether a cable will stand up in service or not. In other words, the cable is the weakest link in the modern power system. Moreover, cables have not been designed to operate on voltages commensurate with those employed for overhead lines...
...optimistic. When it is admitted that the same small social groups will be just as conspicuous a part of the House Plan as they are of the present dormitory system, many erroneous impressions as to the Utopian democracy of the House Plan will be swept away. The older graduates seem to be of the opinion that instead of a mature and natural social hierarchy Harvard College possesses a caste system. If some of the most ardent standard bearers of the reform ever have to live in the Houses, they will probably be disappointed to discover that proximity only exaggerates...