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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, your magazine contained the most complete accounts of all of the races. Yet this season, several records have been made, and you seem to be entirely oblivious of the fact. Yet you devote many lines to accounts of minor pugilistic activities which to me are far less interesting, and can be obtained from any newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...students may be interested in the project", he continued, "I do not know. Students are very concervative and a plan of this sort might seem a departure from settled student habits,--even if only settled for a few years. But I should hope the advantages it involves might appeal to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN POUND FAVORS ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW DINING HALLS | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

...would seem unlikely if not impossible that such a journey would remain a pleasure jaunt as well as a pilgrimage for more than 600 pages. That such is the case is due to the fact that Author Lowes is a scholar and an artist, as well as a keen literary detective. All the mad metaphors, the wild and cloudy symbols of two great poems are traced back through Coleridge's labyrinthine mind to the illuminating confusion of an almost illegible scrapbook. The caverns measureless to man are charted and fingerposted. The sun rises on dark castles and the sunless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caverns Charted | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...this day and more particularly on this night when the Freshman class as a unit comes out and invades the dizzy social whirl, a whirl which will never again seem either so dizzy or so social, the CRIMSON offers its congratulations and extends metaphorical rose-buds to the debutante who dances amid the Georgian simplicity of the Freshman Halls. Tonight's Jubilee will go down in history as the best ever held, for such is the enviable fate of all Jubilees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

...time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CUT DIRECT | 5/26/1927 | See Source »

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