Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French statesmen vanquish their weight by their vivacity. When Foreign Minister Briand of France lights his inevitable cigaret, chats with it bobbing between his lips and winks now and then a twinkling eye, then his fat is forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy...
Shively, Oosterbaan, Friedman, Baker and Joesting seem assured of All-American reputation. When they are graduated, bond houses will seek them as salesmen...
...skilled industries. In many Northern cities there is among Negroes a greater percentage of women at work than men. Professor Dowd's chapter on the Negro in Manhattan is one of the best in the book. The colony of some 200,000 Negroes in Harlem seems to be the best regulated and most content in the U. S. Here longshoremen* heave cargoes by day and frolic by night. Says the author: "It is a far cry from the katydids and crickets of the rural South to the nocturnal jazz of Harlem. A wag once remarked that, 'the Jews...
...academic activities. This relationship must be worked out by the students. To me the extra-curriculum is the healthful, life-giving source of new curriculum. Out of the debating has grown the Political Science Department, out of the prayer meeting has come the Department of Religion. It would, therefore, seem as though it would be possible to bridge the gap between the academic and the non-academic so as to give real value to the non-academic and so as to vitalize the academic state of the college...
...really vital contacts between professors and students seem to me nearly always to arise when the students come into intimate association with the professor's moments of research. There the real character of the teacher appears. Things he cares most about are conveyed to the student from his love of scholar ship and his devotion to new-truth. The students catch a glimpse of the divine fire and are themselves inflamed. Yet how rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities...