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Word: seemed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snapped Governor Bricker, who has dark-horse aspirations for the Republican Presidential nomination: "The Federal authorities . . . seem more interested in the politics of the affair than in helping the needy. . . . The lurid catch phrases which are being used by political opponents are no more applicable in Ohio than in any other State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Heartless | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Fisher fans and enemies. . . Safest fiction of the year to give is C.S. Forester's "Captain Horatio Hornblower." Guaranteed to please all levels of comprehension, although in different degrees. . . "Here Lies" by Dorothy Parker reassembles most of her old stories and adds a few. Our Mrs. Parker may not seem quite so startling as she did in the dear dead days, but her stories still pack an impressive punch. . . . John O'Hara has some more tough stories in "Files On Parade" many of them good, although one can't help but feel that he is capable of better than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...bands most guilty of this are the white bands. Goodman, Krupa, Barnet, Dorsey, and others have all suffered from this failing. The first two seem to be getting away from...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...difference between "all the colored boys" having rhythm and "all of the white boys" not having it. It's not a question of having it: it's a question of knowing what to do with it, once you've set it up. And the colored boys just seem to "take it easy" naturally...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Prospects for an individual victory or two, far less an upset team victory for the Varsity, seem slight against this starry aggregation, but Coach Branaby accords his five a better chance than expected. Graduation robbed him of four of his top six performers of a year ago, but the ranking players are developing so rapidly that he gives them a chance. to extend their favored rivals tomorrow. The Barhabymen started slowly in the tough league competition but in their last two starts have registered 4 to 1 wins over the Newton Y. M. C. A. and the Newton Tennis...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Waht's His Number? | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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