Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...
Children of Darkness. History is apt to make the ladies of bygone centuries seem lovelier than our own. and the scamps of other times appear far more appealing in their outrageousness than contemporary racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap...
...does seem a shame doesn't it? With a well-bred indifference for such mundane affairs. Harvard's intellectuals including those many students who come of working class families and find it necessary to work their way through Harvard go their way serenely indifferent to the plight of Harvard's large staff of underpaid workers, whose condition is a disgrace to the University...
...time during the year are the reading rooms of the college library in greater demand than during the Reading Period and the examinations that immediately follow it. It would seem only natural that every measure be taken to ensure that they function at the greatest efficiency possible. And yet the fact is only too painfully apparent to all who make use of them that only the most haphazard and unsatisfactory solutions has been devised for one problem of more than slight importance--that of ventilation...
After a long period of increasing expectation on the part of both Wets and Drys, the Wickersham Commission has at last made its formal report. But for those who have awaited the outcome of this investigation with bated breath, the results will not seem quite as reassuring as they might...