Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already there, and by increasing the classroom work in the first year one hour a week. Experimental nature of the new plan was emphasized in the report, and provision was made for a Committee on Instruction to appraise the success of the proposals and develop such changes as may seem necessary...
...basis of advance notices, the bumpiest spots in the schedule seem to be the tussles with Dartmouth, Boston University, Andover, and Yale. When Skip mentioned B.U., his voice actually quavered...
...militant Marxist there fell to Marx Dormoy a delicate task. He must explain before the bar of French public opinion the meaning of large quantities of small arms and munitions seized by the police recently in various parts of the Republic (TIME, Nov. 29), and he must not seem to be simply a Left politician attempting to smear the Right...
...scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose exact significance cannot be determined from the text...
...quotations from moderns seem less striking than those from the past, it may be because there are so many moderns in the Morley revision. Editor Morley included George Ade ("Never put off until Tomorrow what should have been Done Early in the Seventies"), many newspaper rhymesters, Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half...