Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rudder or a loosened plate below the waterline, the ship must be hauled into drydock, which may be thousands of miles away. Last week the Navy Department told how it proposed to overcome this difficulty with a $15,000,000 floating drydock, a strange craft that would not seem out of place among the weird illustrations of Popular Science Monthly...
University of Minnesota yearbook athletic seem to shine with the brilliance of the Bierman achievement in football, beginning 1915 when Bernie obtained the Gophers the Big Ten title. In the record books of the University Montana, there is no such brilliance attached to Coach Bierman's name. Mustered out of the Marine Corps, he served two years as University of Montana's coach, years unsuccess enough to cause him to quit coaching in favor of selling bonds in Minneapolis...
Even the magic word "Veritas", which adorns probably the only two official sundials in the University does not seem to suffice to keep them in the straight and narrow...
Such would seem to be the important changes in the report for the last academic year, made public in its first, and most condensed form last night. Later in the year the full report will be published, a volume containing 385 pages for 1934-35. The present figures are so condensed (all figures now available on page 3) that details as to where economies have been affected are hidden. The only major changes in important items of revenue and expenditure are the increase in total income and the corresponding increase in salaries and wages. Other items in the expenditures which...
According to persistent critics, the maladies of the Department are the same as those which afflict, to greater or lesser degree, the whole college organism. Feasible combinations of abilities seem to be double-decked at best, and the real "triple-threat" man as rare as an autumnal leaf in spring. Potentially the choice may seem ideal, but in actual experience limiting factors, such as the amount of the instructor's time, the sum of his energy, and the direction of his main interest prove almost insuperable. The fear, simply expressed, is that the tide is running strongly away from excellent...