Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...precisely this effort that Washington was gloomy about. Tremendous as the speed of the upturn was, that speed did not seem fast enough. The U. S. under Franklin Roosevelt had one policy, one only, to which all others were subordinate: arm for the defense of democracy -including Great Britain, Greece, China...
...town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part of the country, even more than most U. S. workmen...
There is really no reason why you shouldn't like this copy of the magazine, as a matter of fact, even if there weren't so much writing to prove you should. What poems there are, are excellent. They seem to have been chosen more from the occasional reader's point of view than from that of the dilettante or connoisseur, which is really to the Advocate's credit...
...ideas seem oblique, but they seem oblique here because an attempt has been made to translate them into prose, which should not have been done in the first place. If the reader should be bogged down by the poems, but is willing to accept their challenge, he has a wealth of critical material from which to get help...
...American people are not unthinking pacifists. They are willing to fight for causes which seem to justify fighting. But it is necessary that the justification be clear and cogent and consistent with American interests. We recognize that there must be a new order of some kind after this war. But the kind of new order for which Americans may be expected to fight is one which can rest on the consent of the peoples who may be concerned. A new balance of power, which can be maintained only by a constant threat of forcible intervention in Europe...