Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Americans seem to regard education as a commodity or service which anybody ought to get, simply by paying tuition or by having the cost of education met through taxes. A school system that insists on the same instruction for the talented, average, and below-average child may prevent as many children from growing intellectually as would a system that excludes children because of social, political or economic status of parents. Neither system is democratic...
...Aztec. A beetle-browed 200-pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he is a coldly brilliant scholar who graduated from Paris' famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 20, won fame as an anthropologist by a series of notable books on the Incas and Aztecs. Soustelle's travels in Latin America with his Tunis-born wife-also an anthropologist...
...players did not seem especially heroic. Mustapha Zitouni, who had been scheduled to play for France in an international match against Switzerland, said glumly in Tunis: "I have many friends in France, but the problem is bigger than us. What do you do if your country is at war and you get called...
...show itself in favor of inflation, for if threatened nationwide strikes occur soon, Labor stands to lose politically by them. In a TV broadcast, Heathcoat Amory agreed that to Britons his poor-mouth talk, when gold and sterling reserves had risen a billion dollars in six months, must seem "tiresomely cautious." But precisely because he did not bow to political pressures, the budget increased the new Chancellor's reputation. "It would be folly," said Harold Macmillan, "to be an island of inflation in a deflationary world...
...Turks themselves seem excited about the excavation of Croesus' city. "They have received us with a great deal of enthusiasm" says Professor Hanfman. "Our expedition catches their imagination...