Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throughout the year the Council was criticized by groups of undergraduates for the methods of nomination and election administered by the Council under its constitution. While certain of the suggestions placed before the Council seem to me quite impractical, there can be no question that the whole problem of election in the College should be studied by a Council Committee and I suggest that the Council of 1938-1939 begin the year by appointing a Committee to study the question exhaustively...
...people are contented and peaceful. The seem to have plenty of money, food, and work. The lack of excitement amazed me. Franco has increased wages, and built slum clearance projects. I personally saw men being tried according to established judicial procedure," stated Forbes...
...that the screen is so small that objects in the background are all but subvisible. There is practically nothing but drawbacks to the live programs. The actors, who tan under the Birdseye lights, must work at very close quarters to stay within the camera's focus. They seem to have to compensate for physical restriction by overemoting. Twenty hours of rehearsal are required for an hour of telecasting (an average of four hours for an hour in broadcasting). The dramatic material should be artistically equivalent at least to a Grade B movie, and the problem of scaring up enough...
...last resort in a desperate situation," Wendell Willkie, president of vast Commonwealth & Southern Corp. and sometime spokesman for the utility industry, five months ago proposed to Franklin Roosevelt that the Government buy up his utilities in TVA territory. What makes the utility situation seem desperate to such men as Wendell Willkie are two New Deal policies: 1) direct competition with the utilities through such projects as TVA and Bonneville Dam; 2) abolition of all except geographically integrated utility pyramids, which is a main feature of the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Result has been the bitterest...
...hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events; in comparison with them, the struggles of the people, for all their physical vigor, seem pretty placid. The story suggests a landscape by Grant Wood-sweeping vistas of prairie country in which human figures appear as small and indistinguishable as gnats...