Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activity for the Hynes campaign in general. Named "The Young Citizen's Times," it has already been published once and will come out once more before the campaign is over. Already it has spread throughout the city and by the demand for it among the Hynes workers themselves, would seem to be very effective. James F. Ryan '49, and Marilyn Heins '50, of Radcliffe, along with O'Donnell have represented the Cambridge schools on the staff...
...first glance the recently released University Financial Report might seem a rather comforting document. Not only did Harvard compile a $497,753 surplus in 1948-1949, but it was able to do so while many other colleges and universities were cutting courses and firing teachers in unsuccessful attempts to lick recurring deficits. However, the Report also shows up the big weakness in Harvard's apparently strong financial position--the University's unrestricted reserve is sharply declining, because there are certain sick departments inside the outwardly healthy body...
...serious operation and almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse isn't dead!' With this extra life I could do as I pleased. I could create what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past but it's exactly what I was trying to do 50 years ago. It has taken me that long to arrive at the stage where I can say what I want...
...Pacific), was just as staunchly Roman Catholic. For her pretty daughter Claire, obviously nothing would do but a Catholic wedding. Ivan and Claire themselves, pious though they might be, were breathless with the thousand and one urgencies of a society betrothal. The ancient schisms of the Christian church can seem far removed, sometimes, from the exciting immediacies of Park Avenue...
...gaudy. There are no pennants and very few tonic bottles; the woodwork is distinctive, everything is quite plain and simple. La Flamme's retains a great deal from the past, because its two present owners don't believe in major changes and because that's the way its people seem to like things...