Word: seem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differently if he were a happy husband and father, when the normal domestic claims have not taken the sting out of Papa Goebbels or made of Papa Goring the ideal Santa Claus for 1938. Sorry, girls, but when it comes to dictators, you just don't seem to make much headway. EDWARD T. MCNAMARA...
...lock. Fortnight ago it lent China a $25,000,000 credit for purchases of U. S. goods. Last week it extended further credit against Chinese gold held in the U. S. (see p. 16). These gestures, called "dangerous, regrettable acts" in Tokyo, made Japanese and U. S. business interests seem more than ever at cross purposes last week. Yet there was one notable spot of conciliation in this warp & woof of imperialism: Wreathed in smiles, Japanese and U. S. cotton textile men renewed their unique, two-year-old private trade pact...
...diaries), they scandalize a writer's name for good. Expurgated (like Pepys's diaries, Horace Walpole's letters), they start gossip which endures as long as the suppressed letters and diaries remain locked in bank vaults. After 50, 100, 150 years their outmoded revelations seem singularly innocent...
...these eleven writers, nine seem to help define the word poet, two-one living and one dead-make the word poet make sense...
...occasion for exercising them." In spite of this illuminating introduction, readers will still find her poems difficult. The main difficulty for U. S. readers will probably be that she writes in a language in which every word carries its fullest literate meaning. For this reason, language that would seem clear in Shakespeare or Mother Goose may seem obscure in Laura Riding...