Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tunis's keen perception in his anxiety for headline material. I have not been able to secure a copy of his book [Was College Worth While?], but judging from the reviews he has lifted a sentence out of its context and omitted a qualifying phrase completely, without seemingly offending his sense of journalistic honor. In case anyone takes sufficient interest, which I doubt, to prove Mr. Tunis's conclusions hokum-except perhaps as they apply to his own class-he could make a good start by comparing myself as the awful example quoted by Mr. Tunis...
...TIME shines in its own peculiar sphere in publishing the article, [ Harvard | "Class of 1911," by tennis expert John R. Tunis. Aside from the slightly Pharisaical motive which the author's labors seem to suggest, Tunis shows the same astonishingly naïve curiosity as to why even Harvard men hate President Roosevelt, as was expressed in a recent magazine article by co-operatives expert Marquis W. Childs. Both gentlemen should hark back to such Rooseveltian phrases as "hatred of entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers." "discredited special interests.'' "resplendent economic autocracy,'1 "enslavement for the public...
...Then," he explained last week, "business didn't seem to be coming in. My drivers were beginning to complain that customers told them I shouldn't have fought this case. People were listening to stories in the newspapers against me. My customers wouldn't give my drivers their wash. Then the Laundry Workers International Union tried to demonstrate in front of my plant and I got the police to chase them away. But they went to the next corner and made speeches knocking me every night...
...attained a vastly more efficient aspect than at any time during the early weeks last fall. Even bearing in mind the fact that the C team line is undoubtedly far weaker than even the early Crimson opponents, some of the offensive drives staged by the A and B elevens seem to indicate that they pack a potential punch...
...undergraduate life, they have fallen short of their goal in several respects. Instead of integrating the College into one great whole, they have tended to break it up into separate units. They have restricted friendships, to a great extent, to members of the same House. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Houses might well serve to integrate the College as a whole, if more individual House spirit were developed. For a developed House spirit would lead to an increase in competition between the Houses--and such wholesome rivalry would tend to bring the diverse parts of the College together. Morever...