Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today almost the only champion of the Deputies' rights against the whims of the Dictator is Speaker of the Sejm Ignacy Daszynski, the Civilian Marshal of Poland, a onetime friend but now foe of the "Military Marshal"?Pilsudski...
...Senate, baldish, flowing-whiskered M. Clémentel is of the Gauche Democratique, a group which corresponds almost exactly to M. Daladier's Radical Socialists in the Chamber. Naturally he expected their support, proceeded with confidence to round up his personal following which lies a little further to the right, finally sought the weighty aid of great Aristide Briand, a statesman supposed to be above party because of his achievements in the realm of Peace...
...insistently recalled from the front by Prime Minister Clémenceau, M. Le Capitain Tardieu was sent to the U. S. as French High Commissioner. The appointment was almost a scandal. Le Capitain had never before held even ministerial rank. But he justified the "Tiger's" confidence. In the U. S. he borrowed and spent three and a half billion dollars on munitions for France...
...country's prosperity is almost entirely dependent on coffee. Mountains of brown beans in Brazilian coffee warehouses, the certainty that the monopolistically raised price of coffee could not long withstand overproduction, caused the coffee market to crack fortnight ago (TIME...
Concluded Advertisingman Klein: "A newspaperman's training-his 'deadline' habit of thinking on his feet-will get him further in a money way in advertising. . . . And why not, brethren? Ask your wives. These newspapermen's wives- almost always superior in brains and breeding to their old school friends riding around in Cadillacs and Studebakers-will tell you that the boys are just trying to believe they're still living in the glamorous...