Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate committee of fifty to have complete direction of rowing--is that most of the evils that had crept into crew at Harvard were directly traceable to the upsetting influence of the old Graduate Rowing Committee. Few indeed were the compensating benefits for this outside supervision, and no reasons suggest themselves for believing that history would not repeat itself...
Chancellor Snowden did not help matters. Said he acidly of the Liberal measure: "We have already got about 70 committees. One more will do no good and no harm! Such little economies as committees may suggest don't count. It is only on policy that large savings can be made. Let the House of Commons face that...
Even the G. P. U.'s sharpest critics do not suggest that resort is had, except in the most urgent cases, to "taking the glove off." This is supposed to consist in fixing the arm of the man being questioned in such a position that the hand is immersed in water. The water is then boiled. It is asserted that after a time the flesh of the hand can be drawn off like a glove...
...relics of a dead past in picture making. Dorothy Mackaill is good looking and Frank Fay fairly funny. The plot-a show girl who is about to marry a millionaire when her past, in the person of Noah Beery, turns up and threatens her happiness-is good enough to suggest that Bright Lights would have held its own with the competition of last year. Most tedious shot: Frank McHugh as a drunken reporter...
...platform. He has been struggling for the last twenty-four hours to maintain that famed disinterestedness towards things worldly. Has he succeeded? No, most emphatically, no!--And what's more, he knows perfectly well that there are many more like him around Harvard Square. For their benefit he can suggest at least three ways of utilizing a part of a fortunately prolonged week...