Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases. "Well, I guess there'll be hell to pay," said President Harding, "but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...
...Department of Chemistry contemplates making the change, there will be available data that would seem to bear somewhat directly on the decision. Two years ago the Department of Bio-Chemical Sciences was created, with the object of removing evils then present in the system of pre-medical education. Although the achievements toward which the two systems point are essentially different, there is a similarity between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous...
Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...latest attempt to outlaw war put forward by Secretary Kellogg, the affair seems to have reached an impasse yet once again. France has joined with the United States with apparently reasonable conditions, though Britain. Germany, Italy, and Japan have still to be won over. But even the conditions, logical as they seem, are objected to by the United States. France now puts the whole onus of the affair on America. She stands by, with her safeguarding reservations, and watches until the other powers are brought into line...