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 worthy of especial mention...
...offered by the University Theatre which has made its way out of the commercial entanglements that threatened to smother it at birth and which now provides movies whose average caliber is surprisingly high, one may feel well fortified against the entrenchments of the imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...
...seem's to me the criticism of Henry Ward Beecher in TIME, Oct. 3 is cruel and unjust, and in line with much news paper criticism of ministers these days "rejoicing in iniquity." I was a student in Union Theological Seminary in 1867-68. Quite a percent of the students were manly fellows who had been soldiers in the Civil War and they were rejoiced to hear Beecher and they noted in the great congregations a majority of men, yet you say Was "men there as a ever rule a did not manlier like thing him." than Beecher facing...
...wager against Mr. Blake. I have never played golf, but I have often read it is an old man's game. I am 61, but strong and hearty for my time of life. I have seen golf played once or twice and it does not seem a difficult game. I am five feet eight, can go upstairs quite fast without getting out of breath; and walk a good many miles every month looking for jobs. I haven't been able to find a job lately; and Mr. Blake's $10 would mean a lot. I am really...
...activities, different from the football managership only in that they are less in the public eye, have, no doubt, suffered the same fate in recent years. The teams, too, have not been immune from the added attraction which the tutorial system, better reading facilities, more capable instructors, or whatnot seem to be lending to what was formerly considered the exclusive preserve of the uncongenial grind...