Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court, try as he would, Congressman Michaelson could not seem to remember that visit, that statement...
...Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest that Irish-born Bishop Thomas James Garland of Pennsylvania, a fibrous old gentleman of 62, was a man with whom other, younger men, were not eager to work. Bishop Garland parried this suggestion with a wry suggestion of his own. "They all seem to be afraid of hard work," he said. "It rather amuses me" (TIME, March...
...Editor Pew was not downhearted: ''In summation I surely cannot say that I believe Don Mellett's martyrdom was in vain, though the sacrifice was terrible and though the tangible results seem vague. The very fact that we are here thinking and talking of these things means some thing. Culture turns on a slow wheel. . . . It is as incredible that Don Mellett's self-sacrifice, dying that others might live, will fail to cast its radiance upon striving millions as that the morning Summer sun shall fail to awaken the sleeping earth, open the petals...
Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder...
...news that freshmen from Harvard are to debate with freshmen from Radcliffe the question: "Resolved, That the world is becoming worse" would seem to indicate that the world is becoming something. Once upon a time, if we are to believe the protestations of each party, an exchange of glances would have convinced either side of the truth of this now debatable proposition without further argument. Yet now they are found, the natural enemies to each other not only discussing a subject of mutual concern, but teaming together in a sort of mixed doubles arrangement wholly without parallel in public except...