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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will at least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AID TO AGRICULTURE | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

...probably detracting from the program in general, is a sickening film called "Along Came Love." Of all the ridiculous, shoddy bits of colluloid ever to come out of the Paramount Studios, this one ranks at the top of the list. With no cast and no story it would seem impossible to add further to the failure of a picture, but this time the filming and directing reaches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

...chance to see the championship games between Harvard and Montreal on Saturday night and the Crimson-McGill contest on Monday night seem to be the chief reasons most passengers on the CRIMSON SPECIAL have for making the "long weekend" jaunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 135 Sign for Trip To Montreal Via Crimson Special | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

...bench on full pay. Originally no pension or retirement allowance was provided by the Congress. ... In exceptional cases, of course, judges, like other men, retain to an advanced age full mental and physical vigor. Those not so fortunate are often unable to perceive their own infirmities. 'They seem to be tenacious of the appearance of adequacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Baffled when he received as a contribution to the March 4 Roosevelt Victory Dinners a $1,000 check signed "Alfred M. Landon,' Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley, observed: "That does seem to make it unanimous," soon learned that the check had not been signed by the defeated GOPresidential nominee or by anyone else who had an account at the designated bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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