Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short as the twenty six miles seem long, they gain added significance in the fact that this year's race was the criterion of choice for the Olympics. The race, indeed, is so influenced by this, by what it reenacts, and by the nationalities that run in it, that...
...English literature better served in any British university than it is at Harvard?" This is the question that Mr. Benn asks and himself answers, in the negative. Although to a handful of Stevensons and a score of Bertrand Russells Americans may seem no more than parts of an unnatural existence that works like a Ford factory, and although the majority of previous visitors have agreed that the American college is guilty of complicity in this great stifling plot, Mr. Benn denies that the training at Harvard either hammers out a conventional type or ignores the necessities of existence...
...days before the opening the play is whipped into shape. Then the cursing beings. What seemed funny beforehand doesn't seem at all funny now. Finally comes the Sunday night before the Monday opening, when the final dress rehearsal occurs. It starts at 7 o'clock in the evening and continues until about 7 or 8 o'clock the following morning. Then the weeks spent on the road before going into New York are full of trials. One audience never sees exactly the same performance that another sees...
Such terms do not seem "too lenient." Rather they suggest that Minister Mac-Murray succeeded better in his negotiation than did, recently, the British Minister to China Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson who has failed or refused to settle the British claims arising out of the "Nanking Outrage...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...