Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sanguine, shook their heads. They recalled the bitter fight waged to restore the pound to par ($4.86) though it never sank below $3.37. Before Premier Mussolini and Count Volpi the task looms of raising to 19c odd, a coin now worth less than 4c. The "deflation pains" of Italy seem likely to prove keen...
...Perhaps laws and measures issued recently injure deep feelings which at first it would seem should be respected. But those laws and measures have been dictated with a memory of painful historical experience. "Just as history justifies those laws issued half a century ago, which then provoked general dissatisfaction, so the President is confident that future history will justify what has been done." Rebuttal. The Mexican Episcopate issued a long and passionate rebuttal next day. One paragraph distilled the whole document to a sulphuric essence...
TIME'S many items of challenging interest must be making the urge to burst into print infectious. It would seem few of your readers escape. As a constant reader and original subscriber to your admirable magazine, I just read your article in the MISCELLANY column of TIME, Aug. 16, captioned, "Name-in-a-Million." It leads me to submit the following...
...Wiley, business manager. Publisher Ochs is a grave, patrician gentleman, with a bland hand and a judicial eye. His name is the only exclamatory thing about him. He presents an assurance of stability, a hint of qualities that take capitals, an implication of old-worldness, of principles, even, that seem oddly exotic in a world where tinsel is the mode. Manager Wiley was inevitably destined by nature to be the associate of Publisher Ochs. Two such opposites could never have kept apart. They would have been an irresistible vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would...
...Forest Hills when Helen Wills announced her withdrawal, animation slipped away from the Woman's National; to make matters worse a pewter sky settled like a plate over the boggy courts. A glance at the draw made it seem likely that Mrs. Mallory would meet Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the finals and likely also that she would win. Against Miss Ryan, Mary K. Browne might make a bid, but Miss Browne was able to win only four games in two sets, and out came red Miss Ryan to battle brown Mrs. Mallory, just as expected. She soon went back...