Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stalemate. Italy's demand for parity with France and "American frankness" in not signing a consultative pact have, M. Briand states, "opened a way for France to maintain her present figure." Though this would mean naval stabilization, it would also mean an ever larger building program. It does not seem likely that the fat figures of Mussolini's Italy will accept a more painful reducing diet than France. Mr. Friedrich, who is interviewed in this issue, points to a less superficial reason for this apparent failure which he finds in the pressure of big business on government. At any rate...
Brick by brick, the tall twin smoke-stacks of the old heating plant that have for so long overshadowed. Smith Halls are gradually being demolished, although to a casual observer the stacks seem just as high as over...
...room is a vast hollow of jade, in multi-colors and multitudinous shapes. In another great room are glass cases on glass pedestals. In the cases and placed around the walls are his many-colored rock specimens. They all seem frozen in crystal. Near the ceiling runs a frieze composed of transparencies which show western mountain scenes in colors. Varying illumination behind the transparencies shows how the original scenes change in appearance from dawn to night...
Lately, it is true, the proceedings have been more nearly in accordance with public sentiment and it is a comparatively safe surmise that if they continue so statesmen will no longer be bothered by petitions. Secretary Stimson's reproachful announcement would seem to be based largely on recent developments, for anyone who has followed events in the conference at all closely for the past two months will agree that whether petitions were of any aid to the situation or not, they were not entirely inspired by imagination...
...surest way to answer that is to give results as seem within reach up to date. The plan which appears acceptable to America and Great Britain provides for a net reduction of over 200,000 tons in the tonnage of the American fleet and an even larger reduction on the part of the British fleet...