Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment facing at least two real wars, in Spain and in China, coupled with tense situations in the Mediterranean, in eastern Europe, and latest of all, in Brazil. The great masses of the peoples of the world are likewise disturbed, for the clouds of imperialism and aggrandizement seem at times ready to plunge them into another cataclysm...
...answers seem to please Elliott little more than the other men. Turning to the concrete material, Elliott finds that an elementary knowledge of statistics "would lead one to view with scepticism, if not with horror, the proof of Sorokin's pudding contained in such statistics of revolution and war as are produced in the third volume...
...ball game without an umpire and with everybody in the grandstands hollering advice. . . ." Four days later in Detroit, President Homer Martin of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers shot back: "Mr. Knudsen's preference for craft unions might be explained by the fact that industrial unions seem to be a little too effective. . . . What evidence of responsibility are employers going to show to guarantee continuity of production to protect the income for their employes? Either the manufacturers must keep their workers on the payrolls or be charged with responsibility for putting them on the relief rolls...
...ordinary person blithely unconcerned with the trials and tribulations accompanying the daily publication of a college newspaper, the regular appearance of the CRIMSON at his door each morning may seem to be a matter of inconsequential routine...
...often with a feeling of insecurity that a member of the board undertakes to edit a paper on a day when the chief sources of news seem to have temporarily dried up. In such cases his sole consolation rests in the axiom that the presses must never cease rolling, and in the somewhat surprising tradition that the CRIMSON has always been published on schedule...