Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From here on the best advice I can offer to one unacquainted with the geography of the place is to take a field trip in Geology 4. Since it may be a bit late for such advice my second best suggestion is to follow an groups of persons who seem to be going some where. If this also falls ask a police...
This revolutionary offense and the first "scouting" seem almost modern with the talk of novel offenses and "non-scouting" agreements filling the football world with anxiety...
Yesterday an exclusive New York firm, dealing in men's wear, opened, through its advertising columns, new and alluring vistas to the smart (sartorially) student. These merchants have it would seem, sox innumerable--not the common or vulgar type of sox, but something entirely different and revolutionary. To wit:--sox with the name of the wearer's alma mater embroidered, sewn or woven on the sides, where the clock usually runs. Thus, one sits down, adjusts one's trousers, crosses one's legs--and Jo! there is a Yale, Princeton, Michigan or what not man. While the possibilities are interesting...
...play is entirely Miss Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer, and not at all the work of its authors, Princess Troubetzkoy and Gilbert Emery, who seem to have loaned it little except their names. To be sure, there is a professional smoothness about the book of the play, an assurance which borders on insouciance; and the air of boredom with which the authors play on the easily tuned instrument of the public galls even the thick-skinned among Boston playgoers. There is an assumption that the playwrights know what the public swallows alive and buys wholesale, a dangerous assumption...
...professional indictment or genially as a personal confession gives rise to a feeling that what he says is more or less true. Reviewers, Mr. Littel writes, are notably overworked persons; and consequently their styles the excepts a choice minority) have come to be strangely, and most grotesquely, similar. They seem to have certain words which they invariably use, and without which no book review is complete. He cites examples 'poignant', 'moving', 'intriguing', 'admirable words which have been dulled with constant use until they have now lost any definite meaning they originally possessed, and are employed for connotation rather than denotation...