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Word: seemed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman classes at Harvard never seem to change much," asserted Benjamin Laurie, familiar to Union billiard sharks as plain Ben, on his twentieth anniversary at the Union. "And I wish to say that they're the finest bunch of fellows a man can work with," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben Laurie 'Racks Up' His Twentieth Year in Union Billiard Room | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...days of the unlimited supply of liquor to Harvard students seem to be numbered because a new drive prohibiting the selling of liquor to minors in Harvard Square has been started by the Cambridge police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liquor Not to Be Sold to Minors in Harvard Square | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...Skirts range from a conservative two inches below the knee to a little above it, which Vassarites "seem to love." Duke and Purdue reported no above-the-knee skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...what movies do to them and how they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid facts about people who make, act in and look at movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...French theatre take refuge as the years creep up on them, creasing their faces and withering their voices. There they sit, listening to the echoes of long-dead applause, hoping "their public" will call them back to the boards. Not very attractive material, but the French don't seem to worry about the superficial aesthetics of their pictures. They just brush up some sure-fire actors, plaster them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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