Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the U. S. Phoenix Insurance Co. is the equally important Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co., known throughout Central Europe as "Phönix-Wien." Founded in 1882, it established branches throughout the empire, grew prosperous. The break-up of the old Austrian empire did not seem to affect it. Phönix-Wien rode like a duck over the wild inflation of 1923. Less than a year ago Phönix-Wien boasted assets of nearly 750,000,000 schillings ($150,000,000), controlled 15 different companies and had absorbed two-thirds of the insurance companies in Austria...
...socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank Buchman and his doctrine of Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness & Love seem to be more at home abroad...
...many respects he seems to possess those qualifications which Mr. Conant values most. Goodrich has already demonstrated his ability as an educational administrator in his present post. He is known to be an excellent research man and is considered an authority on Conflict of Law and Torts. He is understood to be held in high esteem by members of the Supreme Court. In fact his only drawback would seem to be that he has had no practical legal experience...
...summary action taken by President Roosevelt in abandoning the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project and the Florida ship canal would seem to smack more strongly of political expediency than of any impelling reason for their desertion. Even though it be acknowledged that the Florida project was a flagrant instance of boon-doggling, necessitated by the need of spending so much money within a given time and within such and such a place, the "Quoddy" project has been praised by engineers and might possibly have been developed on a scale with the Boulder Dam, Grande Coulce and other highly successful New Deal...
Faculty men interviewed by Dr. Bock did not consider the men concerned inherently better scholars; rather their work would seem to have stimulated them to greater effort...