Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judging from some of the communications you receive and publish, it would seem that if some folks ever catch cold in their sense of humor (or lack of it), O Boy, won't the undertakers be kept busy...
...since you seem so prepossessing Why you sit there keeps me guessing: If sitting bores you, lady--why not stand...
...whose instructors are favorable to the idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class. During these interims from daily attendance upon the old-time lectures and recitations, the Harvard plan is to substitute outside reading, apparently of a character that will make the old daily work seem an Elysium of ease by comparison. So the plan is not a 'let down" of work, but quite the contrary. As stated in the Harvard announcement of this change, it has been made because it was believed that Harvard teachers had too much to do and that the students would...
...Viscount Astor, husband of famed Nancy Astor, "first woman M. P." said recently: "A great many peers seem to regard the House of Lords as a male sanctuary or a golf club with membership restricted to retired Colonels. . . . They prefer to overlook that it is an assembly making laws for 40,000,000 people of whom half are women. . . . The House of Lords is the only public body which has not recognized that women have rights...
...money was a penalty for dishonesty and cheating by Armour Grain Co. employes. When their stores of grain were being sampled and priced for sale to the Farmers' company, they sneaked into their warehouses, in dead night, and altered samples of poor, bin-burnt grain to make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have...