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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indeed, you seem to present to me in many respects a modern portrait having great likeness to that famous character painted by Victor Hugo-in sooth, you appear to be a modern Jean Valjean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Valjean in Elizabethtown | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...turn accounted for a little more than 2% of the country's over 1,000,000 teachers. The California, Pennsylvania and New York delegations were instructed in favor of the C. I. O. and the Chicago group against it, but delegates from other sections did not seem to know what their constituencies wanted, let alone the rank & file of U. S. teachers. Agitation for a referendum appeared, and a motion was made that the executive council conduct a referendum on C. I. O. affiliation "no sooner than Feb. 1, 1938." It was passed by a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Horses | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...questions which concern undergraduate life as a whole come to the attention of the Council. In general these questions are educational or athletic, but the Council is also in charge of all class elections, all appointments of committees and routine duties. It issues reports on all question which seem significant from the undergraduate point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

Cambridge and Harvard are not difficult to navigate once one knows the way around. At the start, however, the University and its surroundings may seem rather hit or miss. For that reason the accompanying map and its explanation below can be of service in first finding where's what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Geography Not Difficult | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily outrun Japanese bombers. Shooting them down is comparatively easy because Japanese pilots seem to be mesmerized as soon as they find an attacking plane behind them." Added General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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