Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House defeated the Wages & Hours Bill last month, some newshawks jumped at the conclusion that the President and Governors had made a deal, they to furnish Southern support for Wages & Hours, he to get them lower freight rates. If any such deal was made, it did not seem likely to succeed. The Southern Governors cannot speak for their Congressmen any more than the President can speak for the ICC, but both sides may well have expressed their good intentions and hoped for the best...
Commonest and dullest trick to make advertising copy seem imperative is the fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising agency. The agency communicated hotly...
...Vagabond looks at it and does not move. he knows he could perhaps move his head and body out of the way by a frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet...
...plan is frankly experimental. The exact path of development cannot now be traced. Since no building is involved and no additions to our staff are required, the scheme is flexible and if found impractical can be modified or indeed abandoned in favor of some other project which may seem more promising. We are, however, embarking on this enterprise with high hopes, confirmed by the favorable opinion of many journalists, editors and publishers who have been consulted. I believe that through this new undertaking Harvard may have the privilege of making a useful contribution to contemporary America, by cooperation with certain...
...methods in the grades and institutions of higher learning. This, of course, is not true. Harvard standards are sometimes too rigid for high school graduates to meet. To conform to these requirements, schools must retain the classics, the so-called "dead languages", and many other subjects which may not seem practical in the light of present day trends. Still the colleges are offering an almost unlimited amount of courses, of every kind and description, which, according to President Robert M. Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, is one of the chief faults of the American academic system. Maybe this...