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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further you seem to have a religious complex. The fact that Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady is a Roman Catholic has little or nothing to do with her qualifications as head of the Girl Scouts of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...publicitiman Allen, the nonretracting cable about Harlotry did not seem worthy of careful guardianship. The cable was broadcast throughout the land. It was Publicitiman Allen's turn to weasle: "I showed it to a newspaperman ... in my personal capacity. ... In some unexplained way it went to our publicity deportment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mud Pie | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lone Scout | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...some the achievement of Smart Ivan Bratt will seem inadequate; and it was with their view well in mind that he resigned as Sweden's "Liquor Tsar" last week. A Parliamentary report on the workings of the Bratt System is being prepared, prior to a national liquor plebiscite, and Dr. Bratt wants to be free to assist and testify before the investigators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Bratt Resigns | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Just whom the atheists would send to their defence was not quite certain. It did not, however, seem probable that they would lack legal talent. Clarence S. Darrow was of course their loudest trump; Arthur Garfield Hays was another attorney in their lineup. Probably Charles Smith, a demure and smiling infidel, with the gracious manners of a country clergyman, would be present at the procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Atheist's Oath | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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