Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the lectures of interest to be given today and tomorrow, the following seem to be preeminent...
Considerable discussion was raised over the arguments propounded by Sheehan. He stated that when one compares the number of criminals executed with the striking number of murders it would seem that the death penaly is not successful as a deterrent to murderers, Quong resorted to several comparisons of the United States with other countries to show that when a country like England has the death penalty and quick judicial action there are surprisingly few murders every year. West, who moved the question, showed how the execution of the death penalty is spasmodic and uncertain, with damaging results for society...
Thus the problem is left even more than usually in the air, for Mr. MacDonald discards unreservedly "old" methods and "old" diplomacy. It would seem that all efforts at leagues, treaties, conferences, and agreements, gentlemanly or otherwise, in short at any of the adjustments commonly looked for, are bound to fall short of accomplishing their full purpose. For Europe is wily and America suspicious, and the situation becomes more acute...
...that will be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum, an action vaguely suggestive of giving a dog a bad name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination reveals a similarity of educational ideas that is more than superficial...
...fact that works by moderns form a large percentage of this exposition might seem to indicate a primary interest on the part of the students in the modern rather than the classical. It proves that they are enthusiastic followers of post...