Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above all is the need for definite and uncompromising action, and should the Yale plan of making the sport a "major with qualifications" be proposed, it is to be hoped that you will see through the fallacies of what might seem an easy way out and soundly defeat it. Last year when Harvard gave Yale its first defeat in thirteen years, it was the seconds and thirds that swung the balance for the Crimson. But under the Yale plan, only the outstanding stars could get letters, and team spirit and morale would tend to be destroyed...
...read what Mr. Conant has written, not only in this Report but in other publications, he has been a consistent advocate o democratic procedures in education. He does not seem to me to favor curtailment of educational opportunity as a means toward more satisfactory personal living or more effective citizenship; but he does favor the full and impartial use of the schools as an agency of vocational selection. He seems to me to have indicated in his statements that he favors more education in general and more varied education at all levels for the better meeting of more varied human...
...Harvard makes the sport a major, it is quite certain that Captain Macionis will attempt to get similar action for recognition at Yale. This in effect would seem to join the two universities in the plea. Coach Kiphuth has refused to comment on the matter...
...fellows that the present Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is a Unitarian, as are all his family. Said Churchman Cecil: "Whatever function he is called upon to perform under the Constitution, the present Prime Minister performs it thoroughly and conscientiously. Nevertheless ... he is ... a Unitarian Christian,* and it certainly does seem to me . . . that it is unseemly and ... in the technical sense of the word scandalous that he should have that function [advising the Crown on the appointment of bishops] to perform. If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street...
...laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere, any time, startle any man into his creative senses. Into the roomy holds of these seagoing truths Poet Pound crowds everybody and everything he most abhors or admires, pops the stowaways on deck whenever they call...