Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane, the cinema, the automobile, the radio and the rayon industry, the pattern of society today might be different from what it is. The report recommended establishment of a board which would keep trad; of developments in and try to foresee the sociological impacts of 13 new technologies which seem to be gathering headway for a booming future...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign of attrition-to harass the companies at every step with the hope of raising the cost of making steel to a point where any settlement would seem sweet...
...average pedestrian poised impatient on the curb it may seem a simple matter to determine whether an intersection should have a traffic light. Actually, however, that is a decision of almost Ein- steinian difficulty according to Assistant Engineer John T. Gibala of the New York City police, who last week explained in Spring 3100 (New York police monthly) the formula he has devised to solve the problem. If 3,000 intersections need traffic lights, but there is money for only 150 his is a sure-fire way of learning which crossings need lights most...
...Young people seem to be especially disturbed by reference to the Virgin Birth, Physical Resurrection of the Body, the Apostles' Creed...
...impressive as anybody along the way were the Chinese "of great leisure and extremely strong nerves," who, despite their screaming anti-Japanese" banners everywhere, treated her with unfailing courtesy. Her concluding thought was that the Chinese "seem to be likely to inherit the earth and go on forever, while the Japanese, Italians and other Latin peoples go neurotic and mad, followed by the English...