Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...
...hand grenades, 11,346 high explosive shells, 640 chemical shells, 3 airplanes. The present Nationalist Government was also originally financed from Soviet Russia; but its present leaders have broken sharply with Moscow; and they, together with the Strongest Man, face the Great Powers with a record now beginning to seem relatively unsmirched-for there are no better men than they in China, and millions worse...
...seem to devote more than a proportionate amount of space to boosting the stock of Eastman Kodak Co., as witness your several lengthy stories of the phenomenal rise in the business world of George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest...
...doubtful if this account of the campaign machine would seem accurate to the men whom Hoover beat. To them Good's success is almost sinister. They see in him an almost Catilinian figure who, by some mysterious and influential energy, succeeded in making use of the most miscellaneous collection of backers that any nominee could have. Able political writers, well aware of this, are equally amazed at Good's adroit handling of a difficult endeavor. Wrote a thoughtful correspondent to the New York...
...neither of these nobles does it seem "inexplicable" that a pretty woman should accept their joint escort; and to suggest that she was "imprudent" in so doing is clearly a dueling matter...