Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placid ending of the Congressional session has become wholly unlikely since Messers Frazier and Lemke planted their inflation bomb in the House. The implications of this bill are many and various, but for the moment they seem to be largely of a political nature...
Apparently, if the Houses and bridges are to be lighted, the floodlights must be erected on the parkway, under the supervision of the MDC. But on this matter, the officials seem to be glad to co-operate with the College. The result: a permit to put up the floodlights...
...Well aware is Franz Boas that his anthropologist's view of war may seem naive to historians, politicians, economists, soldiers. In substance it is this...
...last U. S. concert not for acclaim, not for money but for the benefit of the Orchestra which has played for him during the past eleven seasons. Once his baton was raised he became the humble servant of Beethoven and Wagner, began by making the first Leonore overture seem so buoyant and tuneful that it was hard to regard him as a conductor nearing...
...nationality or political convictions of a particular section of the world should have any influence over the discussions of an international congregation. Citizens of democratic countries are becoming increasingly huffy and high-handed with dictatorial governments like Fascism and Naziism, but to what end? Autocracies, disagreeable as they may seem to a liberal people, must be dealt with. We who have been born and bred in democratic traditions are wont to treat European dictatorships like provisional governments merely waiting for the day of democratic revelation...