Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POLITICAL PROVERBS. A fortnight ago, guests at the White House were Mr. and Mrs. Adolph S. Ochs of Manhattan. While Mrs. Hoover motored Mrs. Ochs around Washington and entertained her (TIME, April 15), President Hoover devoted spare moments to Mr. Ochs, who publishes the august, fatherly (and almost always Democratic) New York Times. President Hoover asked Publisher Ochs this and that about U. S. journalism. After the Ochses had gone, President Hoover wrote a speech. Last week President Hoover went to Manhattan, taking his speech with him, the first extra-routine speech of his administration. Publisher Ochs...
...birthright for a mess of pottage." The jury refused to convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight fisticuffing championship and the girl he loves, is made pleasant and almost credible by the acting of William Haines and by Joan Crawford's handsome legs. Best shot: the crowd at the ringside the night Duke beats Frisco...
...Schacht, which seemed to brand FAILURE upon all concerned last week, was in fact a pair of alternatives. The Allies could take their choice, and in either case they would get 15 billion dollars over 37 years. The first offer (which so enraged the French and British that they almost for got there was a second) provided that if Germany were granted "access to colonial raw material," preferential tariff treatment from the Allies, and "economic communi cation with the detached province of East Prussia, then the Fatherland would pledge unconditional payment of the 15 billion dollars. The second offer provided...
...room they both expressed themselves to correspondents in scathing terms, though "not for publication." The plan was not worthy of criticism or consideration, they indicated, because they believed it had been "offered in bad faith." They did not offer any alternative plan, perhaps because the Commission long ago became almost inextricably entangled in its so-called Draft Convention for a Disarmament Conference (TIME, April...
...clip, little hindered by a light head wind, which had less effect than did the cross chop from several launches which had passed over the course. Crew X had a slight lead as the two eights passed under Harvard bridge, but Watts forced his shell ahead to a position almost a length in front of crew X. Swaim retaliated, but was not able to shorten to less than three-quarters of a length, the lead gained by his adversaries...