Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
...well for Robert Clarkson that his able efforts in the Chase Bank came to the notice of a discerning eye. In almost every efficient organization, however chaotic its workings may seem, there is one man, who may be the assistant cashier but who is more likely to be the president, whose function is to handle the controls. Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...highly respected lit'ry gents of the classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where a simple "What of it?" would suffice, there is always that much more amusement for the occupants...
Basket Maker flappers had bobbed hair, but they seem to have preserved their shown tresses because plenty of hair has been found in mummified baskets. Moreover, they made some use of it, weaving it into rope. The women did most of the basket making for which the tribe is famous. There was no clay pottery among them and they seem to have employed baskets for every conceivable domestic purpose...