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For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.
Compared to the big, established magazines, my first efforts seemed feeble indeed.
Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.
He seems to have felt the want of definite principles of etymology without being able to discover them, and indeed even in the first edition of his grammar ( 1819 ) he seemed to be often groping in the dark.
By the time Antiochus II's son Seleucus II Callinicus came to the throne around 246 BC, the Seleucids seemed to be at a low ebb indeed.
Most were compiled long after the triumph had been fully co-opted into a Imperial-monarchic system of government which to an earlier Republican would have seemed very un-Roman indeed.
Ponzi's good fortune was increased by the fact that just below this favorable article, which seemed to imply that Ponzi was indeed returning 50 % return on investment after only 45 days, was a bank advertisement that stated that the bank was paying 5 % returns annually.
Today he seems to us to have recorded his fellow Americans with a perception that was often as tender as it was vigorous, and to have preserved for us the essence of an American life which, indeed, he did not idealize -- because it seemed to him beautiful beyond the necessity of idealization.
The timing of the recruiting boom in the wake of the news from Mons, though, suggests that men joined knowing that the war was dangerous and indeed many joined precisely because it seemed to be a threat to their home, district and country.
Herodotus describes how, on the eve of battle and faced with the formidable Persian expeditionary force, the Athenians had despaired of the Spartans, or indeed anyone else, coming to their aid in what seemed to be impossible odds.
Russia, as the natural ally of Austria, was very obnoxious to France ; indeed it was only the accident of the Russian alliance which, in 1741, seemed to stand between Maria Theresa of Austria and absolute ruin.
In April 1942, Georgii Flerov, who would later became a key figure in the nuclear program, directed a secret letter to Joseph Stalin pointing out that nothing was being published in the physics journals by Americans, British, or even Germans, on nuclear fission since the year of its discovery in 1939, and that indeed many of the most prominent physicists in Allied countries seemed not to be publishing at all.
It took over an hour but he never caught a cold or seemed in the least unwell after this or indeed after any of his naked shooting exploits.
And indeed, Louis-Phillipe and his ministers adhered to policies that seemed to promote the central tenets of the constitution.
After SFU moved to NCAA II, it seemed as though the game would stop, however, the two teams would indeed play in October 2010 at Thunderbird Stadium using Canadian rules.
Some workers did indeed turn to such radical movements as Communism, but, in general, the nation seemed to have been shocked into inaction.
This new, raw, emotionally charged style seemed at the time to signal the end of the previous era's singing styles and was, indeed, a harbinger of the rock ' n ' roll music that was to come.
Often, they find that what seemed to be but a brief foray into fairyland was indeed much longer in the mortal realm, possibly weeks or years.
But he seemed to have an innate ability to read how far he could push the envelope and indeed he was never reported during his career, a fact that would surprise most who saw him play.
) One of Bunnicula's apparent victims tries to sneak up on Harold at the end of the book, and it is left ambiguous as to whether or not Chester was playing a prank on Harold, though Chester seemed to be oblivious to the thumping noise the vegetable was making, or if this was indeed an actual attempt at an attack by a vampire vegetable.
This is less so within Jewish Studies ( and the study of that discipline ), partially for historical reasons, because the rationalism of Gulkowitsch ’ s style seemed to some unduly accommodationist to non-Jewish principles and systems of thought and too critical of its mystic traditions ( it will be noted that Gulkowitsch indeed demystifies the Kabbala and the Talmud and is very critical of Chassidism ).
He notes two problems with public administration: it " has seemed methodologically to lag behind " and " the field ’ s theoretical work too often seems not to define it "- indeed, " some of the most interesting recent ideas in public administration have come from outside the field ".
The film did not offer anything extra for British fans, except the opportunity to see the sketches in colour at a time when many viewers still had black and white sets, and indeed many were disappointed that the film seemed to belie its title.
Many crew members said the two producers seemed more interested in courting women than overseeing the production, and indeed they threw parties at which many prostitutes were reportedly invited, with little food or entertainment.

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You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.
It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.
Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier-like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him.
Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to grow graver all the time.
They seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.
And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.
Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.
A long flat known as the St. John field seemed to answer their purpose, and since the Winooski bridges were at last passable, they decided to use it.
My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.
And counting noses, they seemed to have the votes to work their will.
The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.
There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.
They leaned into the wind and seemed like one thousand-legged monster hurtling and plunging until suddenly they rose straight in their saddles and in one terrifying voice shouted, ejaculated their grotesque cry of war.
It seemed to Lucy that all their married life, she and Jim had been doing nothing but rescue his sister from the constant crises that were her way of life.
The girls seemed to spend half their time tiptoeing in `` to see if Mike was all right '' and they were too preoccupied to cook, much less be secretaries.
Much of their behaviour seemed stereotyped and did not involve any actual contact between individuals.
The difference seemed insignificant, but it was important enough to attract their attention for many months.
Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.
They noted a glycerin-bile-potato mixture grew bacilli that seemed less virulent, and changed the course of their research to see if repeated subculturing would produce a strain that was attenuated enough to be considered for use as a vaccine.
In their study they found that neither agent alone seemed deadly, but a combination of the virus and Nosema ceraneae was always 100 % fatal.

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