Word: seem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no exact figures on the number of hard of hearing people in the U. S. but this does not deter many people from quoting any figures that seem to suit their fancies. I have seen figures ranging all the way from 200,000 to your 20,000,000 which seems a new high. My own estimate would be somewhat less than a tenth of your figure. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is certainly doing good work but nothing is gained by making out their job to be astronomical in extent...
...pestiferous, parthenogenetic thrip may well seem comparable to Hitler's promises. But Carter Glass meant a threepenny piece. ("Tizzy" is British slang for sixpence...
...first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...
...ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...
...boys are equally well at home in at least two different places. Bucker Bill Brown and quarter back Hank Vander Eb are two more good replacements so the Harvard backfield juggling this week is not a sign of weakness but one of the mystery. It does not seem possible that the continual pressure which these eight men will be able to maintain on a rather tired Eli eleven can be denied throughout 60 minutes of bruising football...