Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make her meaning clear, signed a treaty with Poland making official her ironclad promise of military aid to Poland. In Berlin Hitler sent for the British and French Ambassadors. To Sir Nevile he said (as quoted by the British White Paper from Sir Nevile's notes): "Poland's actual provocations have become intolerable. . . . War between England and Germany could at best bring some profit to Germany but none at all to England. The F then also be ready to accept a reasonable limitation of armaments...
...added effort, with the backing of other American republics, but held his hand. It seemed he had fired for peace all the ammunition left in his locker. Next move would be to recall Congress, ask it to revise Neutrality. But that move he could not well take before actual war broke and its form was known. Meantime, should formal war be declared, he was bound to withhold from its angers all U. S. weapons (above calibre .22) and ammunition, from pistols through planes, motors and warships to flamethrowers, to the belligerents...
...wondrous flight of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow to sign a Pact had jogged the world (TIME, Aug. 28), the Pact's actual wording really shook it. Nub of the Pact was contained in Articles...
...record manufacturers gloomed over their dwindling sales accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation of actual sound, from the topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry's future...
Composed of Overseers and outsiders chosen for their interest in a particular field, the committee's function is to advise the various department of the University. They exercise no actual control of policy, and the position is largely honorary...