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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING HOUND AND HORN PLEASES AND PUZZLES WITH WIDE VARIETY | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system-all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Countrymen | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Last week Bishop Garland had this statement to make: "They all seem to be afraid of hard work. It rather amuses me. I have borne the burden of the work here for the past six years. I am 62 and they are all younger men than I. The diocese has not lost standing. I am still Pennsylvanian enough to say if they have refused, let them refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop's Dilemma | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...office work; second, from the point of view of specific businesses--particularly those which have been in the habit of coming to Cambridge for seniors, with the thought that they will take them into their organization, and after a period of training, use them in whatever capacity they seem to be best adapted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

...whole, new buildings to the north of the Yard seem the only practical solution. There may be other considerations that would make some other plan more advisable, but while opinions are still abundant on the subject of the House Plan nothing has been offered by University officials towards remedying this lack. Suitable living accommodations are important factors in providing for the welfare of the student but they are only one phase of the problem and it would be the utmost folly to develop them to the exclusion of the no less essential teaching facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROWING PAINS | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

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