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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary report to the Freshmen Committee on Houses Dean Hanford last week concluded in regard to the plan for associate memberships in the Houses that "the disadvantages of the proposal . . . seem to outweigh the advantages of the proposal when the best interests of the House plan are given proper consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanford Rejects Freshman Plan For Associated House Members | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Only 99 of the 659 go to church regularly, 160 own a house and 271 have no domestic help. Unmarried members of the class seem to have as many servants as the married. One, reporting seven servants, comments, "This is India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY SHOWS TEN YEAR CLASS IS NOT OVER SUCCESSFUL | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Since you seem to know the answer: What has happened to Freud the great Jew-his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...critics have cried unfair tactics, notably some English reviewers who seem to feel that such syllabic pruning and repairing is too much like filing the parts of a jig-saw puzzle to make them fit. If such were the case, Mr. Nash's poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Bookshelf | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...ships are painted in bright colors. All of them hand made from original or copied designs, no two seem exactly alike or to the unknowing eye as if any of them could go any considerable distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Model Airplanes Sail Through Breeze While Mob of Witnesses Packs Field | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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