Word: actually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blitz Blessing. By actual clocking, the average speed possible for motorists to get across town ranges from 6 m.p.h. in Glasgow to 10 m.p.h. in London. At Worcester, where a dozen main roads converge on a single narrow bridge, lines of cars and trucks stretch as far as the eye can see. The Queensferry bridge over the River Dee-on the main route from the north in Wales-is barely wide enough for two lines of vehicles, and five-mile traffic jams are normal. The last piece of major road construction in London was built 50 years ago. A brand...
...Asked to estimate the number of Jews that Hitler killed, most guessed a few thousands (actual total: somewhere between...
...resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections and deaths from some hitherto harmless or uncommon germs...
...speaking readers a chance to inspect a compact but rich and skillfully presented array of negative images and ideas about America. The article is a particularly powerful one because it presents America in the most concrete form, that is, in specific episodes and in the words and actions of actual organizations and individual Americans who are identified by name...
GENEVA, May 8--The Soviet Union demanded today that East German representatives be brought into the opening session of the Big Four foreign ministers conference tomorrow as full participants. The Western powers rejected the demand. The dispute created some uncertainty about the actual opening of the conference set for 2:30 p.m. Monday...