Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that this was news ? Certainly if the documents are genuine it is news. I confess a fake dispatch in the Hearst papers is ordinarily not news, but if these are fakes it would seem that the persistence with which they have been brought forward makes them news...
...seem to recall, however, that while "major" or "maior" is the comparative, "magnus" is the positive, as "opus magnus" and not "opus maius." Unless there be some trick reference here to Maia, the goddess or month...
...often stated that a reduction of tariff rates on industry would benefit agriculture. It would be interesting to know to what commodities it is thought this could be applied. Everything the farmer uses in farming is already on the free list. Nearly everything he sells is protected. It would seem to be obvious that it is better for the country to have the farmer raise food to supply the domestic manufacturer than the foreign manufacturer. In one case our country would have only the farmer; in the other it would have the farmer and the manufacturer. Assuming that Europe would...
What is, to the world at large, the interest and importance of such discussions as this may be known only to those editors who have the trend of timely subjects under their scrutiny. To the average reader it must seem that the long-continued offering of praise and censure and criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth...
...spirit of helpfulness and cooperation is nowhere so clearly evident as in the policies of the College Library. No other large depository of valuable books is so generous of its treasures. The rules, though they at times seem irksome and unreasonable, are mild when compared with those in force elsewhere...