Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaffner clarifies the present market situation and realizes an attempt to warn today's investor of the pitfalls which confront him. His recommendations form a minor part of the book, the greater portion being taken up with a critical analysis of prevailing corporate practises and investment theories, but they seem substantially accurate and well-founded...
Perhaps the additional week of training does not seem important to Princeton with her array of "set-ups" at the beginning of the season. It has been decided at Cambridge that practice games prove nothing to the players and are of no interest to the undergraduates. The Crimson schedule next fall opens with Amherst, Brown, and Army, all three of which start practice at least a week before the Harvard squad...
Some will assert that Mr. Hoover has merely employed a new "ghost" writer. Such inquiry is at once bootless and pointless. The energy of the "rejuvenated Hoover" sallying forth with freshly sharpened lance is apparent. His ideas seem partially refurbished, and his verbal thrusts are aimed with a delicacy and deadliness that must excite the envy of English pig-sticking enthusiasts. His delivery has been revolutionized, but the logic behind it is as direct as heretofore...
When the ruts have been well-formed, a thaw is provided sufficient to coat them and the surface with glare ice. Sand is a useful article whose virtues seem to have been ignored in this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...
Since general enthusiasm does not seem to warrant an economy in the number of games, Mr. Bingham is making a sensible decision in asking that the wear and tear on the players be mitigated by extending the period of training. Pigskin continues to be king, and if the gentleman's throne is too narrow, it must in the interests of comfort be widened...