Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State for India prior to Joseph Stalin's break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with characteristic recklessness that British agents had been working for some years to undermine the position of Comrade Trotsky in Russia. "But, dash it all, they don't seem to be able to do anything...
...these facts seem improbable in this enlightened age, I can only explain my submission to Father Divine's influence by indicating that I am a colored woman of middle age, with unlimited faith in Divine Providence and a quickness and readiness, through a highly impressionable and emotional mentality, to believe in human perfection and the brotherhood of man. My husband, also colored and of my own age, regards himself as well read in the Bible, and has always sought relief from an inferiority complex resulting from the color of his skin, in the consoling thought of a blessed hereafter...
Pianist Serkin again submitted himself reverently to the music, became a part of the great singing orchestra, made his most intricate runs seem incidental. Despite the attention he has won in Europe and the U. S., he still seemed flustered by the applause. All his life he has made music numbly, not as a showman. When he was a boy in Vienna his parents were so poor that they had only one room for themselves and eight children. There in the din and clatter young Rudolf learned to play...
...Many stock buyers seem never to have got over the idea that a stock is a bargain just because its price is low." declared Mr. Gay as he thumped his desk. "I can't stress too much the plain fact that just because a stock is selling at a low price is no guarantee it is cheap. A stock can be selling as low as $2 and still be the dearest security in the country. Make no mistake about it: the right-minded people in Wall Street don't want to see the public rushing into securities without...
...experiences with all her colonies are taken into account. Professor Andrews studies the colonies that remained loyal as well as those that rebelled, with Bermuda, Newfoundland, the Barbadoes receiving almost as much attention as the ones that eventually became the original 13 States. If some U. S. heroes seem to shrink in stature as a result, and some familiar English enemies to disappear entirely, the net gain is a dense, panoramic picture of a century of struggle, revealing how confused the Founding Fathers were in their aims and intentions, how superficial and misleading most accounts of their lives and heritage...