Word: seems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would seem to the poor unacquainted reader of the CRIMSON that the various pseudo-politicos concerned with the Fisher-HYRC case have so involved themselves in charges and counter-charges that the salient point of importance in the affair has become obscured. The members of this University who voted for Mr. Fisher and who vote for other campaigners expect themselves to be represented by those who seek their vote. If Mr. Fisher and the members of the YRC planning committee had been less concerned with their politics, whatever politics 19-year-old sophomores can be sure of in their...
...grudging tribute came from Friedrich Ebert, Communist mayor of Berlin's Soviet sector. "They seem to have no lack of planes and pilots and gasoline," he said. "I live in Potsdam and hear the damned things roaring over the house all night...
Young Editor Edward Kemble seemed to have what it took to be a frontier journalist in San Francisco in 1848 (pop. 375). It was a time when editors had to be "true with the rifle, ready with [the] pen and quick at the typecase." But Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense...
Toland's subtle transition shots make the jumps seem as smooth as cold cream. Sample: in the '90s, Niven's older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...
...failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...