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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the picture was intended for mass consumption the comedy is naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: AT KEITH MEMORIAL | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...spite of the fact that training tables seem to have lost popularity during the year, William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, expressed himself as confident that they would pick up again as they have in the past. About three years ago training tables were ordered discontinued in certain sports, but petitions resulted in their being restored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAINING TABLES ARE TEMPORARILY ENDED | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

...eligible for election are George Roberts, John Mechem and Ned Cutter of the second line; Russ Allen and Traf Hicks, first string defense pair; Ralph Pope, third line right winger; and Sene Emerson, reserve defenseman. Of these men George Roberts and Traf Hicks have played the most and seem a lightly more logical choices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Winds Up Best Season in Crimson Annals With Fourteen Wins | 3/9/1937 | See Source »

...friends. Welcoming Unitarian Cornish's extended mention of the Archbishop, TIME would hesitate, however, to call Aglipay's people "not of the Catholic faith." Bishop Dougherty considered them "lapsed Catholics," and in the case of the millions he brought back to the Church he would seem to have been right. Before Archbishop Aglipay became friends with Governor Taft, a Unitarian, he claimed that his Church was Catholic in everything save that it repudiated Rome, abandoned the confessional and permitted priests to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...general war broke out, Author Prentiss believes that war gases which have proved efficient would be picked up where they were dropped in 1918. No one can say, of course, that a supergas has not been developed in secret, but this does not seem likely because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored. Moreover, nothing could be plausibly called a supergas until it had proved itself in practice. Many an idea that looked brilliant in the laboratory has been a dud on the battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mars in White Smock | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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