Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poisoned pellets scattered around by the Maintenance Department would seem to have had but slight success in alleviating the condition, the rodents continuing to wander freely in the upper stories...
That raise, rather than educators have become the product of the Graduate School of Education would seem to be indicated by a series of events in that institution...
First requisite of a picture with a moral is that it make its moral seem important. Second is that it make its moral seem :rue. Boy Slaves fails in truth because its bad characters are not human but monstrous. ". . . one-third of a nation" fails in importance because its characters do not seem worth bothering about. And in addition to being inherently feeble, both pictures suffer from amateurish acting, writing and direction...
...strictly literary point of view the book is consistently fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...
Despite the troublesome days ahead, Coach Hodder did not seem pessimistic yesterday. "Of course we have an inexperienced team," he said, "and so it is pretty hard to make predictions. But if we don't make any mistakes and play our best game of hockey, I think we have a good chance from now on, I've seen both Dartmouth and Yale play. They are both fast teams and they can both outskate us, but if we play our best I think we can beat them...