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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peculiarly enough the tiny volumes issued each year by England's comic magazine and examples of which from 1844 to 1880 are now on view, seem to concern themselves to a marked degree in their colored engravings with topics of equal or greater moment today than at their time of issue. Thus those of 1852 and 1860 are titled "Progress of Bloomerism or a Complete Change" and "Swimming for Ladies." The figures depicted by the engraver John Leech show that though the costumes of this day would today be conspicuous for their superfluity, at that time they represented what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editions of Three-Quarters of a Century Ago Reveal Striking Prophecies--English Comic Shown in Widener | 1/4/1928 | See Source »

Thus reads the final sentence of the dispatches of the latest unpleasantness between the United States Marines and the Nicaraguan forces, and the dead and wounded in the American column seem to bear witness of the statement's accuracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NASTY NICARAGUANS | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salute | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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