Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national forests, carefully conserved. Oil and mineral reserves take up 62,000 sq. mi., national parks, 11,700 sq. mi. There remain 302,000 sq. mi. of just plain common land, unreserved and unappropriated. It is fit only for cattle-grazing for which it has been used so hard that in a score of years it has deteriorated 50%. In another 20 years it will become worthless. Before that happens President Hoover wants to turn it back to the States in which it lies...
...view should ever be forced upon British statesmen-who know the strategic value of the land of Palestine quite apart from that of the people-the issue of whether a great deal more money should be spent at once to protect Palestine Jews was sharply raised in London by-hard-featured, scrubby-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, shrewd president of the World Zionist Organization. After an interview with Minister of Colonies and Mandates Baron Passfield (famed in his former style as Economist Sidney Webb), Dr. Weizmann gave correspondents to understand that the Cabinet would continue sternest measures to restore peace...
...beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish thyme, sweet marjoram; seasonings from Amberna and the Isles of Spice; carloads of ox-tails from the stockyards of Chicago...
Last fortnight's Foundation news was as stimulating to old-established imaginations as it probably will be hard to "sell" to the kind of imaginations it aimed to benefit: Condé Nast, eastern smartchart publisher (House & Garden, Vogue, Vanity Fair) promised the Foundation $2,500 per year for three years for unique traveling fellow-ships-unique because all the traveling will be done, not among European chalets, chateaux and cathedrals, but in the U. S. among barns, grain-elevators, oil-cracking plants...
...loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production of the original, disguised under a title from Sexpert Havelock Ellis, would seem more than, a paraphrase of its own imitations. The Dance of Life is too long and overdetailed; it is handicapped with a tedious theme-song. Its virtues are faithfulness...