Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...example of Kremlin democracy by "ejecting" those of its members who dared to introduce resolutions not in strict conformity with the party line. It has been boycotted by Catholic and Republican youth organizations; a formidable rival group claiming almost two million members has sprung up; and further secession movements seem to be well under way. The Arctic war has frozen out the ruling minority and has crystallized the different currents of opinion which had lost themselves in a swamp of lethargic submissiveness to an "aggressive" leadership...
...Maillol, size means little. So poised and serene are his figures that even his statuettes seem monumental. No large statue in the show surpasses the 11-inch Leda, of which Rodin said: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece...
Because Roman Catholics believe that theirs is the one & only True Church, they are discouraged from attending heretical or schismatic religious services-i.e., any but their own. Many Roman bishops restrain their priests, and refrain themselves, from joining interfaith gatherings, where their presence might seem to condone the heresy that one religion is as good as another. In the U. S. last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night...
...Troy, Idaho. They sold so well that he got rid of everything but the side line, moved to Spokane and became a distributor for Velie, Oldsmobile, Willys-Overland. Last spring he sold his Hudson agency for the Northwest for "about a half-million - that is the closest I can seem to remember." Taking on Graham-Paige's Pacific Coast agency, he staggered President Joseph Bolden Graham by selling 600 cars (10% of Graham's 1939 output) in a few months. So Manufacturer Graham hired Salesman Johnson to run his company...
...letters have been forwarded to the experts on "Information Please," with instructions' to divide the booty offered by the radio program equally among the 789 students who seem to be playing this game out west...