Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are moments that aren't a bit bad, situations, that, for all their metronome-like precision of planning, get their points over in a routine and unhilarious manner. In fact, the playing is just that--routine and unhilarious. All the actors, with the possible exception of Mr. Mitchell, seem to have been deadened in years of stock work. Their character drawing is unsubtle, all darkness and brightness, with no intermediate shading...
...estimate the value of his goods, is the task of each individual producer, a task upon which to no small degree his future, may depend. In accordance with this principle, Harvard is not to be denied the right of establishing whatever tuition fee may seem reasonable. Presumably the current income is calculated to defray merely the yearly running expenses of the institution...
Confronted by these statements, Crier Woollcott did not seem to care that reputation was at stake. Petulantly he rasped : "It happened. I should not have told the story, except that I think anyone who shoots at birds, even though he's a general, ought to be told...
...during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses to reveal themselves and exams in the hard ones seem far away. The refreshing tang of the first cool days has not yet lost its novelty...
...attention has been drawn to a recent editorial in The Times in which you seem to adopt a slightly cynical attitude toward comments made in my annual report for 1927-28 on withdrawing coaches from the direct supervision of intercollegiate games. The subject is not a new one and perhaps does not require any detailed discussion at just this moment. I venture, however, to remark upon one of two considerations which affect the whole matter...