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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hour of inexpensive sunlight for expensive kilowatts and calories. Then, too, if Mr. Storrow's program is followed there will be fewer reasons for late hours than formerly--and "early to bed and late to rise" would surely be an ill advised principle, although the fuel administration may seem to advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT O'CLOCK NINE O'CLOCKS | 1/15/1918 | See Source »

...pains and that has expressed itself in an exuberant introduction. "I accept as genuine every poem in which the author sincerely and reverently calls out through the night and finds an echo of gladness and recognition," says Mr. Schnittkind. It is a dark night and many of the poets seem far from home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 1/12/1918 | See Source »

...last summer comes in the question of the fate of the German government. When we entered the war we were going to destroy the German government and not the German people; we hoped for a German revolution and with it a representative government. Yet our hopes in this direction seem farther and farther from being realized, and now we are coming from generalities to definite terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR WAR AIMS | 1/10/1918 | See Source »

...chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await our turn. They are going away from Harvard not to come back until the end of the war. Most of them will not re-enter college, for the University will seem a petty school after the trenches of France. We hate to have them leave us for we are temporarily losing some of our best friends, but, on the other hand, we envy them their fortune. So we must say farewell and wish them the best of luck. They are going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YAPHANK | 12/22/1917 | See Source »

...captain and many civilians, and were finally driven out by a posse. Such a riot has not occurred for years, and cannot easily by explained. The negro troops' last misbehavior occurred at Brownsville and resulted in the dismissal of an entire battalion from the service. All of which would seem to lead to the conclusion that our negro soldiers are a disgrace to the service. Nothing is farther from the truth. The work of the colored troops in the last, Mexican affair was nothing short of marvelous; they bore the brunt of the fighting and acquitted themselves gloriously. The negro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEGRO MUTINY | 12/13/1917 | See Source »

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