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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the Class of 1942 is more anti-election than previous freshman classes. There is rather contrary evidence if the circulation of last year's abolition petition--which was much wider than that of the present one--means anything at all. In the light of this, it would seem that Yardlings have in the past been driven to the polls against their wills. Just as the Communists would force the workers to be free, the Student Council has forced the Freshmen to be "democratic", and has met all protest with investigations which followed the same lines and reports which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN MANDATE | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

Future at 70. These objectives might seem rather meagre were it not for the fact that the drive for them is already bound up with the campaign of 1940. All those who become serious candidates for the next Democratic Presidential nomination will find the issues ready made for them by the quiet struggle now going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight Executive Editor Wood told Cartoonist Kirby that his contract, which expires April 1, would not be renewed. To the man who once said: "Scripps-Howard and Joseph Pulitzer seem to have the same ideas," Mr. Wood added: "That's your wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Leftover Liberal | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley has spent much of his life in the southwest with the Choctaw Indians. Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas is part Indian. Therefore Lawyer Hurley, who works for Sinclair and other U. S. oil companies, would seem an excellent go-between in efforts to make Mexico pay up for the $175,000,000 in U. S. oil properties it expropriated last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Visitor to Mexico | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Massey said that although it might seem paradoxical that the stars could be comparatively uneducated compared to the bit players, it really heralded a new movement in the theatre. The next generation of stars, claimed Mr. Massey, will be college trained, almost without exception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raymond Massey Left Oxford to Fight, Discounts College Influencing Career | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

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