Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around after pop has had his ears pinned back, seem resigned to living happily with him ever after...
...young English novel today is obsessed with the fear of war, Fascism, Communism, Democracy's collapse, neurosis. Allegorical figures of Fascism, Communism, Democracy wrestle semi-essay-istically, through Wellsian plots, with a hero nebulous enough to squeeze at last into some sort of mystical bomb shelter. Such novels seem curiously at odds with the authors' vigorous personal activities-mountain climbing, travel, hiking, sports...
...other hand", he warned, "a study of the past should remind us of the fallibility of all human judgements, even those of the best informed. What appear to be clear-cut issues to one generation may seem nebulous uncertainties to their descendants...
Respect for the spirit of your recommendations as to tenure would seem to have required that scholars of unquestioned capacities who have served the University more than ten years should be offered the opportunity of permanent appointment--either at their present salaries or without promise of advance beyond the normal salary of an associate professor--even if such action were to be regarded as exceptional...
...there is a family of nations, Russia and England are like brothers who seldom speak, fight when they look friendly, fight somebody else when they seem most at odds. If the new agreement is signed in an atmosphere of overwhelming suspicion, it will be no new thing in Anglo-Russian relations. When both were in monarchic Holy Alliance, they intrigued against each other, sabotaged each other's trade, angled for republican U. S. support. When Tsar Nicholas I proposed that they divide up Turkey in the middle of the last century, England fought Russia as Turkey's ally...