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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only available comparative scores are those of the games with Union College. Union defeated Yale 7 to 5, while Harvard was defeated by a 9 to 1 count. Although this would seem to give Yale some edge, the fact that the games were played early in the season and the Crimson players have been improving steadily ever since would discount any slight advantage. Yale's season has not been very successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY STICKMEN TO MEET YALE TOMORROW | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...appears that perhaps the Allies have been guilty, however, on this occasion. At the time when the Experts were called together many observers insisted that the time was inauspicious. And the delays which the German delegation have thrown in the way of the Committee seem to indicate that they ar prolonging the conference for some ulterior purpose. Now it is declared by correspondents and others that the delay is occasioned by a desire to await the results of the British general election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DAWES MAZE | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

...enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: 'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen, -I say, I rather think -but don't let that influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained out of his trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt did not seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie was a nice horse. Among governors were Kentucky's Sampson, Tennessee's Horton, Indiana's Leslie, New Hampshire's Tobey, Pennsylvania's Fisher, Wisconsin's Kohler. Vice President Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Derby | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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