Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there have been in and near Harvard Square an increasing number of cafeteria where good board can be obtained as cheaply as we can furnish it. With its large kitchens Memorial Hall is expensive to conduct unless the number of meals served is proportionate to the equipment; and it seems unreasonable to carry it on at a loss if no social purpose is promoted thereby. For this object the Hall can provide what commercial restaurants cannot; for it can furnish club tables which they cannot afford to reserve. But at present the students do not seem to regard meals...
...Stephenson was tried in Indianapolis for murdering a girl. While the trial went on, Mr. Adams's brief case grew fatter. He asked Governor Jackson to investigate some charges in support of which he, Mr. Adams, would be very glad to bring forward documents. The Governor did not seem to think an investigation was necessary. Mr. Adams then got himself appointed head of a special investigating committee of the Indiana Republican Editors Association. As a hint of what was coming he supplied the press last week with a copy of an ungrammatical letter...
...Take nothing for granted. No matter how respectable a man may seem, be he clergyman or vestryman or Y. M. C. A. secretary, he may still stand in need of your moral surgery...
...Main Streets and kindred counter-depressants. This book, which mirrors Smithness with shrewd, quaint brightness, will never have such sales. It is not among the Smiths' failings to stare at themselves in a looking glass, though they do like going to Coney Island and seeing how awful they seem in the exaggerating panels of the "crazyhouse...
...species Babbitii of Homo Americanus Mukerji's latest offering will seem incomprehensible tosh about an incomprehensible person, one Rama Krishna, whom his followers call an Incarnation of God, as was also Buddha, Mohammed, and Christ...