Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among a colonizing and militantly imperial race, like the British, such an incident would seem trivial, minuscule. But so fledgling and unmilitant is U. S. imperialism that the death of even one young colonizer as he raced for home does not lack poignant significance...
...undraped . . . that is unessential criticism . . . only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...worked purely by a hand pump, and is quite small, so small, in fact, that when some Dutch scientists were shown the arrangement, they asked. "But where is the machine?" On, various occasions Professor Bridgman has just missed losing a limb when the apparatus emploded, for the pressures seem to burst easily an inch thick wall of hardest metal. Professor Bridgman is still perfecting the arrangement and hopes to achieve pressures of 800,000 pounds per souare inch or even higher...
...operation of the British Army Council, is a war picture without plot, a rapid newsreel of the fighting that went on in the mud and rain in 1916 and 1917. Unlike those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
Explorer Byrd, at Dunedin, last week,, was 3,000 miles from the South Pole. That does not seem far. Yet Portland, Ore., and Millinocket, Me., are 3,000 miles from the North Pole; so too Lyons, France, and Venice, Italy...