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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Wednesday's Graduate Student Council elections can but seem a farce to the average graduate student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Elections | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...only one or two of the candidates had taken the initiative to engage in some campaigning they would not only have ensured their own election (it would seem that they were not particulary ambitious in that respect), but they would also have stirred up some badly needed interest in the election as such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Elections | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...there does not seem to be much chance that the activities of the Graduate Student Council will rise from the oblivion which has been their lot in the past. J. Peter Prins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Elections | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...restricted report, outlining a specific program for preserving the advantages associated with tutorial. The aims of this program would be to enable students to develop working relationships with individual faculty members, and to encourage and guide independent work. Such a program would probably lean heavily on the Houses, which seem to be the only units small enough to deal with men out of the herd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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