Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose: to meet the threat of San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner, which have recently pushed brisk Sunday circulation sorties into a jealously guarded newspaper preserve. To the custodian of the preserve-which also includes five radio stations and a television station-such poaching is intolerable. Valley residents seem to feel about the same way. In the 18,000-sq.-mi. domain, one of every two doorsteps is daily crossed by a Bee; in Sacramento so many people take the paper that a new carrier boy is handed a route list, not of subscribers, but of those few nonconformists...
...More Queens. In the post-World War II heyday, when everything on television was new and attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
...interesting entity. In terms of quality the overall effect might be better. In fact it might be a great deal better. In relation to much of what here reflects the decisions of the student as collector, there have been multitudes of opportunities offered by the Cambridge galleries themselves which seem to have gone unheeded. And in any grouping of large numbers there are bound to be mistakes. But far more important is the fact that Harvard student collectors seem to follow their convictions and preferences with spontaneity and without recourse to pre-digested commandments of taste...
Certain features of the sample study, such as the division of the Charles River frontage, seem to indicate the University's desire to "find a balance between educational uses and the creation of business and commercial properties" on the MTA site...
...recent report by the Committee on Science in General Education represents an another unsuccessful attempt to clarify the role of science in a college curriculum, and by implication in the more general body of educated men. It is unsuccessful because it does not seem willing to admit the unusual characteristics which surround science as an intellectual discipline...