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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem to me that to be a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers is a great honor and great responsibility and a careful check of anyone nominated should be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt's Letter | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...course, I realize that to the average man in the street who reads the N.Y. Times and the N.Y. Herald Tribune only, and hears such commentators on the radio as Edward R. Morrow, or Barry Gray it would seem that Dr. Bunche is a great and good man who has been persecuted without reason. But, when such an honor is being bestowed on him as being placed on the Harvard Board of Overseers I believe that the nominating committee should not be satisfied simply with newspaper statements on the qualities of any man, particularly about such a controversial figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt's Letter | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard undergraduates who have responded to the Brigade's advertisement yesterday voiced mixed reactions to the plan. At least two said they were ready to go, though with a few reservations: "I don't look forward to putting my life in the hands of these guys who seem to be crackpots...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Students Join Brigade To Aid Tibetan Rebels | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...other, and it would seem more indefinite approach, is widely talked of in terms of "a more directed course than is taken under the present system" and "regularly scheduled, close work with a faculty member...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Faculty Will Consider Freshman Experiment | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

...story with his easy gaiety and gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their earlier films they raged at social injustice. In The Roof they are not really angry. Instead of asking the spectator to hate the world, they help him to love the people it hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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