Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah then rose and in a series of resounding periods made the peace-dove seem the most vigorous and promising of birds. It was the high point among his treaty utterances. The ladies in the Senate gallery were stirred. The Senate passed the treaty with but one opposing vote, that of Senator John James Blaine, Progressive Republican of Wisconsin. Two days later he was soundly rebuked by the Wisconsin legislature...
...cost. To build the first unit on the DeWolf Street frontage, as the report suggests, instead of on the vacant lot behind Gore, would involve the demolition of almost a block of houses. This would add something to the expense but the advantage of the project seem to outweigh any expenditure incurred by tearing down a few frame and brick structures. Furthermore, while the report stipulates the purchase of the plot bounded by the Smith Halls, Dunster, Boylston, and Mt. Auburn Streets, this acquisition is not immediately essential. It would require a greater difference than this in financial outlay between...
...Prom those two magic words seem to carry with them a feeling of superiority; they smack of the elite. University of Colorado Proms are the most democratic in the country yet somehow even they stand out. Truly, the Prom is The One Event of the year...
Bitterly did King Amanullah of Afghanistan regret, last week, that he had ever sought to sow "reforms" among his people (TIME, Sept. 10), for it began to seem that he had reaped a revolution quite capable of toppling down his throne...
...feet encounter the slippers of an attractive showgirl. He brags to his friends about his date and writes for the girl's picture which he pins over his bunk. The complications resulting from his bluff are worked out so skillfully and with so little sentimentality that the people seem real and the situation funny and convincing at the same time ; that the end, confused by an unnecessary sound-sequence, is devoid of kisses, should not spoil this smart picture for the box office. Best shot: the Texan (Gary Cooper) drinking a chocolate ice-cream soda...