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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seem hard to believe, but the varsity tennis team had a better season this year than its 16-3 overall record would indicate; for each loss came partly as the result of an early season back injury to captain Dale Junta...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...been written about the Mormons since Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in upstate New York a century and a third ago, but most of this writing has been marred by an all too obvious lack of detachment. The past several years, however, seem to have opened up a new and welcome era of objectivity...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Two Dispassionate Looks At the Latter-day Saints | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

However, this is the first book of its kind, and it is one which succeeds in capturing the drama and the color of Mormonism. One of the main reasons for this success is the extremely well-written editors' introductions to each account, which seem to bear Mulder's stylistic imprint...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Two Dispassionate Looks At the Latter-day Saints | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

Since the average "reader" of the Yearbook gets no further than the pictures, it seems worthwhile to begin a review of Three Twenty Two with a few words about the book's uneven level of photographic achievement. The high-points are some very nice portraits of professors and several pictures best described as "moody." There are many candidates for the low-point, but the worst would seem to be the PBH photographs that appear to have been taken through a bowl of split pea soup. Many other photographs are out of focus, poorly lit, and just plain dull...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Three Twenty Two | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

...feature on teaching fellows that opens the faculty section barely bothers to review, or even to analyze. Rather, it plunges into some naive proposals for abolishing teaching fellows. An editorial has no place in a yearbook now, and will seem even more out of place twenty-five years hence. The Radcliffe story, in dialogue form, is a good try for creativity, but it fails. At the back of Three Twenty Two is the Yearbook's magazine "Cambridge 38." The article on professionalism raises an interesting and possibly serious problem, but its failure to define professionalism (is it a concern...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Three Twenty Two | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

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