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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past month. The King's physical improvement is all that could be expected. He eats and sleeps well. He walks, leaning heavily on two nurses, from one room to another, and sits by an open window for hours, watching the horses exercise on Bognor sands. But he does not seem able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. It was said that this is the reason the Prince of Wales has paid only one visit to Craigwell House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skipper's Daughter | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Specifically, Mr. Warburg urged a raising of the Federal Reserve 5% rediscount rate. "When commercial paper commands 3¾% and when bankers acceptances sell at 3?%, rediscount rates of 4½% and 5% seem grotesquely impotent and out of line. . . . Conditions such as these call to mind the painful events of the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Warburg Warns | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: For Amateurs | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...assures them that any such punishment will not be inflicted unless he deems it deserved. This is in keeping with the main point of the Decalogue which is that it is absolutely necessary to believe that M. Mussolini is always right. On the whole, the hopeful youths of 1919 seem to have aged rather rapidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUT THE BOY GREW UP | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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