Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of Notre Dame and a Soviet atomic energy executive may seem unlikely acquaintances, but acquaintances they are. Father Hesburgh met with Vasily Emelyanov at sessions of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The Notre Dame President and Frank M. Folsom, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America executive committee, are Vatican City's permanent representatives to the agency; Emelyanov represents the Soviet Union...
...undergrowth, festoon the trees. They are found nowhere else in all the world, and their control of the mile-long island has not been contested since 1921, when the Brazilian government withdrew its lighthouse keepers after snakes had killed three of them and the wife of a fourth. They seem to live an ideal life, with plenty of sea birds to prey upon and no enemies. But all is not well in their paradise. Last week Herpetologist Alphonse Richard Hoge of São Paulo's Butantan Institute of serum therapy reported that the snakes were producing more...
...dreams sometimes most valuable? You seem to believe in action and in thought connected with action...
...Fitzgerald, grimly determined after a 13th-place showing a week ago, led the Crimson by taking a close second behind Quaker Ernest Tracy. Fitzgerald's great closing rush made it seem that he might overhaul the Penn ace, but his bid fell three seconds short. Tracy's winning time was 26:10 for the five-mile distance...
...present no major institution appears ready to adopt the four-quarter program. From secondary and prep schools to colleges, parents and students seem set against it; and where the pressure of admissions permits the institution to dictate terms, the problem of fixed income from endowment and of success based on an established formula seem insurmountable...