Word: deemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musicians here are concerned over what they deem the decline in prestige of Italian music and musicians. They say that the traditional great demand the world over for Italian singers and instrumentalists and Italian operas is diminishing. This is a matter of something more than mere national pride in Italy. For the Italians music has always meant a very fine profession. A great many musicians have regular and well-paid employment in Italy and a great many more find posts in other countries. The Italians have supplied musicians for a large part of the world...
France, Belgium, Spain and Brazil have preceded us in similar attempts to gather for permanent preservation all the really excellent work of those artists, authors, sculptors, and architects which the Immortals may deem worthy of recognition. The American Immortals are fifty in number, and form "a comradeship of the leaders of the arts in America". It is the decision of this group that they recognize everything for its esthetic value, regardless of the public popularity or vogue that it may have. In this way only the truly literary and esthetic records of the nation are chosen...
Some time ago the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers appointed a joint committee to select a plan for a permanent memorial to the graduates and undergraduates dead in the war. Apparently the committee can't make up its mind, or doesn't deem it judicious, to do so until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest...
...Shidehara, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, in his article published in our Daily, lays forth what purports to be Japan's policy in the Far East. We deem that it is of great importance that the American public should know the truth about the whole situation. Broad generalizations help us but little; We must resort to concrete facts. With this principle in mind, let us, examine some of the Ambassador's statements...
...consideration to the health and enjoyment of others, it is courteously suggested that, during the continuance of a cold or cough, the owner of this ticket may deem it wise to refrain from attendance at all events of the Philadelphia Forum...