Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reluctant to speak out, Sir Arthur finally declared: "Stripped of juridical niceties, the effect of the gold clause verdict of the United States Judges is that words have no meaning. The verdict destroys the terms of contracts expressed in explicit language and operative in United States territory. The verdict destroys the reliance by Europe upon any contract of the United States upon which to base stabilization of exchange essential to the restoration of international trade...
Below this announcement whether in the same notice or in another, prompted by a House member eager to gratify the gastronomical needs of his guest with University food we cannot remember) there is a statement, just as explicit, just as forceful, but hardly as considerate. It says that lady guests will not be allowed in the Dining Hall. We suppose, giving the Entertainment Committee the benefit of the doubt, that it means for dinner, but then, one can never be sure, and the prospect of waltzing with the Dining Hall, tables is far from pleasant...
...telegram "which was read as though it were evidence [at the U. S. Senate inquiry] asserting that no less a person than His Majesty the King had sent for the Polish Ambassador and impressed upon him the importance of purchasing whatever he wanted from an English firm." Making no explicit denial, Sir John continued "Of course, that is perfectly and entirely grotesque. All of us, to whatever party we belong, know His Majesty to be perfectly incapable of having any connection with this silly story...
...behind him, Great Little Gaston pushed on against the politicians. This week he will ask Chamber and Senate to go to Versailles and there in joint session as the National Assembly amend the Constitution to: 1) raise the Premier who is now primus inter pares ("first among equals") to explicit leadership of his Ministers; 2) empower the President, one year or more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that in case the Chamber...
Less lyric than his fellow-poet, Auden writes with more explicit scorn of "the old gang," dedicates his book with the forthright sentiment...