Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looking for it, too? We ought to find it together. You seem as lost...
...Leary is really in the thick of the fight. "People seem to be tickled to death with my platform," he told the CRIMSON, "they all say they're going to vote for me. I'm swamped with phone calls...
Said Dr. Dunlap: "Women . . . seem less abject in their obedience to foolish laws than are men. ... It was once against rigid convention for women to expose their legs in public...
Said Pediatrician Landon Howard Smith of the University of Oregon, who introduced the Patrick method into Multnomah: "Within twelve hours after birth the infant's skin is clean; the vernix [film covering the newborn] has disappeared! Unless one has witnessed the phenomenon, this miracle does not seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...
...situation in general. In tone, these conversations are not very different from equally interminable conversations about his generally pleasant and prospering plantation affairs. And since both Cavin and his wife (an idyllic pair) are dimly characterized, the novel's total effect is to make the violence of Reconstruction seem as placid as Cavin's family is respectably heroic...