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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doesn't seem so tough, these days,' says Ralph Guldahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Answer at Oakland Hills | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...London, Conn., June 15-workouts since the arrival of Tom Bolles four Crimson crews here last Saturday seem to indicate some improvement in the Varsity as a result of recent shifts, although the Jayvees as a whole have shown a tendency to bog down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY IMPROVES IN CREW WORKOUTS AT RED TOP CAMP | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

...people, as ridiculously touchy after all, as our letters to the editor seem to indicate? If so, it would seem that the flip tail-twisting in which TIME is wont to indulge is a distinctly beneficial antidote. It appears that the public capacity for getting insulted is expanding, and crowding out, in the process, our much-vaunted American sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Talky-Talk. Wells's straw-men are also ventriloquial dummies: they all have the dubious gift of gabble. And for every keen sentence he lets them blurt, he makes them babble a tedious paragraph. Star-Begotten is a short book but spots in it seem very long. His scientists may be angels in the laboratory or operating room but often they talk like poor Poll. Says one of them: "In a fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wells in Parvo | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Back to the paper to notice that the world outside has not changed, with Mr. Morgan, back on the Queen Mary, taking issue with Mr. Roosevelt without mincing words. It would seem that although death is as certain as ever, taxes, especially those on the incomes of the rich men, are far less so. A picture of Miss Earhart, in Africa, flying this time from west to east and still trying to find out what makes this world go round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

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