Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since if Japan would have to "alter her plans" to build 46,000-ton ships she was obviously building none at present, this seemed a clever way of slipping the requested information out the back door. However, it did not seem to strike Secretary Hull that way. Taking the Japanese Government's curt note as an invitation to Britain, France and the U. S. to scrap their 35,000-ton limitation, the Secretary said: "The Government . . . regrets any development which has the effect of encouraging rather than discouraging races in armament building...
...Disappointment after disappointment would seem to have weakened the League of Nations," went on Mr. Eden, "but its foundations remain. Our efforts may be checked but we are not beaten! . . . What is essential is that we should never abandon our ideals! It is for you and for all of us to champion them...
Metcalf, whose post makes him a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is the first trained "career librarian" to have charge of the Harvard libraries. In the past, profession have been appointed to superintend the library administration in an advisory capacity. Faculty men, however, seem to approve of the new efficiency and to find Metcalf easy to work with...
...Arizona look well in this medium, as does Virginia Bruce, always more reminiscent of the rotogravure debutante than of the prairie mother. Yet if her striking coiffe and general showgirl demeanor make Miss Bruce an anachronism in any western, Mr. Beery, who has a way of making homicide seem unimportant, is also miscast...
...seems that President Conant is assuming that every student getting a degree from a college today is counting on nothing but a white collar job. Doesn't it seem plausible that there may be students who aspire to and obtain jobs that cannot be classified as such...