Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage of development from totally different sources becomes less inexplicable than first sight would seem to indicate...
...people whom I have in mind are the first to complain of mob law, lawless violence of laborites and other disturbances of the peace, but when it comes to a violation of the 18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that...
Most people suppose that the American Red Cross never turns a deaf ear to the appeals of famished, stricken sufferers. When reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore...
...fight with each other for the lawyer. Why the children are not spanked by their father and told to stay at home is not explained. Instead they invade the mistress' apartment or ask her in ill-bred fashion to visit theirs. Somehow, Author Meehan makes their bad behavior seem excusable so that the audience hopes that both mistress and children will get the lawyer. Owing to the skilled advices of a friend of the mistress, both do. William Boyd, once Quirt in What Price Glory, is the bone of contention...
Neither engagement was a game; both were routs of such a nature as to make the Eastern teams look foolish. The boys from beyond the Rockies did not seem to take the game as seriously as their rivals; nor did it appear necessary for them to do so. It was like watching the Princeton Varsity play against St. Mark's. A great horde filled the Yankee Stadium to watch the Oregon Aggies stop Ken Strong, push over the supposedly indestructible N. Y, U. line and score 25 points...