Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governor is to enable him to extend executive clemency to innocent men and women who have been convicted after a fair trial. If the governor and his commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether they and the judge gave Sacco and Vanzetti a fair trial, it would seem that the executive power was used merely to confirm the judicial determination of the question before the court, and not exercised independently in the manner contemplated by our frame of government with its separation of powers. Sincerely yours, Edward Dumbauld...
There he might find it. It's a pity, almost, that Presidential campaigns don't come oftener. Harvard undergraduates seem to have lost the faculty of lifting themselves out of themselves among familiar surroundings, and grave doubts have arisen as to the possibility of any sublimation of the student personality. But six weeks have wrought a revelation. Anyone who has seen--and heard--his friend who is wrapped up most of the time in thirteenth-century Italy become a member of the electorate will admit...
Next came Putnam's pretty 40 yard toss into the waiting arms of Burns who was standing in the end zone. These plays were a marked improvement in the matter of forward passes, and seem to indicate that the coaches are attempting to develop an effective aerial attack. Putnam's third attempt for extra point was perfect, making the score...
...game saw the first real chance which George Crawford ocC, has had at directing the team, and while he was in he showed a wise selection or plays which would seem to indicate that at last Coach Horween has found a solution for a perplexing problem...
...mayoral election had seemed friendly horse play to the Princetonians, but in a presidential election they were not to be trifled with. Their citizenship, mostly newborn, surged within them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode...