Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...
...Author Ludwig comments: "In reality, the moral victory over his physique was his destruction ... it was but the prelude to countless parades and processions, resounding orations and menacing gestures ... all his life to seem what...
That a "wave" or "epidemic" really existed; that student suicides were actually more numerous in 1927 than in 1917 or 1907, and not simply made to seem so by the avidity with which newspapers smelled out the school affiliations, past and present, of every 1927 suicide under 30 years of age, remained undemonstrated. Evidence to support the "wave" theory was visible only in isolated cases. The self-hanging of Bruce Frederick Wilson, Princeton sophomore, closely followed the self-hanging of a Yale sophomore and the self-asphyxiation of a Princeton graduate student. In the wallet of Mclntire Harsha, University...
These are the plays which seem most important...
...here again the council may defeat its own aim. Whatever the Williams Student Council may accomplish in the future, will in all probability be put through by this pentarchy. The experience of the Harvard Student Council would seem to prophecy that the rest of the council will not be very active. It will receive its facts and opinions in more or less predigested form, and unless composed of rather extraordinarily energetic men will be inclined to let it go at that...