Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nearly 45 per cent of the females now practicing prostitution in Moscow came from the provinces to work as servants. When such peasant girls lose their positions and are unable to find others, they seem afraid to return home, or unwilling to give up city life, and therefore they prostitute themselves...
...majority of Professor Babbitt's anathema is heaped upon "the new extensions of the principles of individual choice" and "the allowance of latitude in the individual." To the average reader, the very principle here implied would seem to be one of the strongest signs of health in Harvard at present. It is undoubtedly due to its presence and influence that a member of the faculty has been able so to criticize his university from within its very walls and command attention not wholly condemnatory. Cornell...
...forms of the musical romance, that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with...
Many consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...innings of the third match, England had 417 and Australia 397. When Australia had completed its second inning, the tourists went in to bat on a wicket that after a rain and five days of play was ridged and torn so that it favored the bowlers; it did not seem possible that the English batsmen would be able to reach 332 runs to win. Jack Hobbs gave the visitors their start; shortly after the interval for tea, he was bowled out with 49; Herbert Sutcliffe continued with Jardine and the day's play ended with nine wickets to fall...