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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the avalanche of suggestions gets started, Mr. Holton of Los Angeles and others seem to forget that Canada belongs ONLY to the Canadian people and in consequence is not available as payment for anyone else's debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...other Americans of Irish birth or descent, was TIME'S (Sept.11 issue) omission of Ireland's leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly, Mr. Flynn and others like him would be subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries of international law, in order that a compromise on cash-and-carry would seem to anti-repeal forces like a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...conversation on August 16 with State Secretary Baron von Weizsacker: "I was impressed by one thing, namely Baron von Weizsacker's detachment and calm. He seemed very confident and professed to believe that Russian assistance to the Poles would not only be entirely negligible but that the U. S. S. R. would even, in the end, join in sharing in the Polish spoils. Nor did my insistence on the inevitability of British intervention seem to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Book: Legman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...more than anything in the world, but could not sacrifice Germany's vital interests for it, and for His Majesty's Government to make a bargain over such a matter was an unendurable proposition. All my attempts to correct this complete misrepresentation of the case did not seem to impress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Book: Legman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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