Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness to face economic facts. Chairman Kennedy's plan is not to junk the shipping lines which it is his job to salvage, but to encourage them to extend their services...
...either committed suicide by jumping in the Charles River or had met with foul play at the hands of an unknown person. However, police are now discarding both of these theories, because, as Lieutenant Kiniry said, the victim's body has not been discovered, hence both of these ideas seem implausable...
Principal causes for accidents among students seem to arise from the driver's failure to size up situations carefully enough. There is a tremendous temptation, as everyone who has put his foot on the accelerator of a modern high-powered car is aware, to get everything possible out of one's vehicle in the way of speed, and, within limits, this does not seem to be bad. Police regulations to the contrary, the difference between fifty and sixty on the open road in daylight cannot be regarded as serious, and when students are picked up for clocking sixty under circumstances...
Rapidly the Vagabond became ruffled and confused and irritable. Many months past, beneath the light of a summer moon, he had persuaded a West Virginia lass to accompany him to the sport event of the autumn. Then November twentieth did not seem more than a week away. But that was then. Now, the thoughts in his mind assembled in one spiritual ball reverberating with excited words: he would be obliged to take one girl and two relatives to a game which he wished fervently he could watch alone. Contemplating a sudden change of name, or flight, or amuesia anything...
...seconds a trip totals for the year to three hours and 36 minutes of time wasted all of which mght well have been spent in Worthy scholastic endeavor. So a three-year hike of about 13 and two-thirds mikes, and a delay of about 10 hours, 48 minutes, seem to be the result of architectural symmetry at Lowell...