Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tabloids are a "comforting refuge" is questionable, but the fact remains that the full-sized newspapers have taken on an alarming bulk since the World War. They are not ashamed of their bulk-it represents increasing advertising revenue and new features; it grows bigger every day; it does not seem to fear the tabloid cry. Daily editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages are becoming commonplace in a half-dozen cities in the U. S. Sunday (or Saturday) editions of less than 100 pages are considered puny. The Sunday New York Times has appeared with 240 pages-the paper...
...Poem. Judged worthy of the attention of the members of the Literary Guild this month, the poem, 4,000 lines long, begins and ends with small Isolt of Brittany, whose hands are made to seem more fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram...
...athletes to New Haven today who will strive for a long delayed Crimson triumph. Last year a brilliant but poorly balanced Harvard team came within a third of a point of defeating the powerful Eli; and this year, although still rated as the underdogs, the University track men seem nearer than ever to their goal of victory over their ancient rivals...
...teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling pastime, which coupled with the high worth of the cause would seem to add much to the gentle art of giving, --to the Harvard Law School Endowment Fund...
...editorial on the throwing of water from the windows of the dormitories would seem at first glance to be futile as well as trivial. Yet it is neither. It is a matter which can mean much for Columbia's standing in the eyes of people living in the immediate vicinity...