Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange craft that would not seem out of place among the weird illustrations of Popular Science Monthly." From TIME...
...batch of them in Sian last week. They may or may not have said to themselves, "Our sorely exploited country must keep the goodwill of the good people of America and Europe and in those countries not impair our credit any more than can be helped. Bankers do not seem to like Moscow, but if the Premier of China is 'forced' against his will to fight the Japanese, whom he has been getting ready to fight anyhow, with Communist assistance, that will put a much better face on things. We can also tell the West that...
Under the present ruling a House Master is allowed to fill 5 per cent of his annual quota with graduate students. Small as this percentage may seem, it equals one third of the men who are refused admission to the Houses each year. Although most of the graduates form a desirable element, and contribute a great deal to House activities, the fact remains that the Houses were built for the undergraduates, and they should be considered first...
...President Roosevelt's swing along Latin America (see p. 13), that even this week it will scarcely get down to action. As the President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original freshness and bloom...
Instantly the Speaker touches a button, adjourns the Commons session before Mr. Churchill can speak. He snaps a bitterly sarcastic complaint at the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire. Sir John Davidson, who snarls back: "It is remarkable how much you as a private member seem to know about the wishes of the King...