Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office. (If for instance a U. S. Representative was offered money to help put a bill through the U. S. Senate, he could not be prosecuted for having "sold" his office because he had no official connection with what the Senate might do.) While this ruling may seem to the lay mind technical, theoretical and involved, it was nevertheless one of the reasons why the Government preferred to try Messrs. Fall and Doheny first on the conspiracy charge and let the bribery indictments hold over...
...Henry Ford has in his character a certain naïve quality that makes his acts or words credible no matter how far they may seem to clash with logic or probability."?New York Evening Post...
...Levine, transatlantic flyer, has friends there, and it is to do him honor when he returns from Europe that the Welcoming Committee is functioning. Its Chairman, shrewd Richard M. Gipson, wrote Mr. Ford: "At this time, when you have magnanimously attested your faith in the Jewish people, it would seem fitting that you should be present at the banquet to be held upon Mr. Levine's return from France. The Rockaways, so cosmopolitan in population, are the home of many distinguished representatives of the Jewish race, and your presence here would be striking evidence of the faith that you attest...
...While we are asked to trust Great Britain's purity of intention whatever her demands, it does not seem to work the same way when we make a few ourselves...
Many citizens of the free and independent Republic of Bolivia were somewhat downcast last week by what might seem a trivial cause. Bolivia is almost twice as large in area as Texas and has about the population of Chicago; but last week this sovereign state was troubled by the destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia...