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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words, the men from a distance figure more largely than those from the immediate vicinity and the man from Missouri, to quote a concrete instance, seems to stand three times as good a chance of being prominent as the man from Massachusetts. This would seem to explode the theory that a man must come from Massachusetts to attain prominence at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigation Committee Discovers Harvard Is Not a Rich Man's College | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...American?" He answered his question by saying that he believed all this did not have to be. "Poverty isn't a necessity as it was 2000 years ago when there wasn't enough to go around. Today we can produce enough for all. On the threshold of plenty, we seem worse off than before," because American lacks consumers. The solution he felt, was not in "building monuments...

Author: By Alexander R. James jr., (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Hicks Tells Why He Likes American At Union College | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

...tutorial work. This is particularly feasible where both adviser and advisee are interested in the same field. Along with the transformation would go the extension of tutorial to Group IV Freshmen, so that as Sophomores the majority of the class might be on the road to honors. Such schemes seem like dreams, but from the value of the reforms already instituted by Dean Leighton they may some day prove realities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly We Hail told of Manhattan's café society receding from the U. S., setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that didn't look too muscular, So Proudly We Hail spurted fastest when it shook off its plot and bounced into revue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Proof of the Pudding | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played the king as if someone were about to play the ace, his portrayal is so chary it makes the Soviet iron man seem wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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