Word: inasmuch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no getting around it; someone has fallen down on the job. In 1725 we voted to give the steward four pounds a year to keep the clock in order, but he hasn't kept his end of the bargain for five generations. Inasmuch as this steward has proved unreliable, it is high time we got one who will really earn his four pounds. There is no limit to the bad effects of a precedent like this, and it mustn't be allowed to go on too long. If something happened to the Memorial Hall clock, would we just...
Conversations between the two groups had progressed to such an extent last winter, it is said, that the H.L.U. was preparing to submit the proposal for merger to its membership when "suddenly the Defense League called the whole thing off." "We were not surprised," says the H.L.U., "inasmuch as the orientation of the S. D. L. has always been towards foreign affairs...
British quarters believed a plan for dispatch of British expeditionary forces to both Turkey and Greece in event of a Nazi drive might result from the consultations inasmuch as Eden and Gen. Dill are expected to go to Athens after three days in Ankara...
...have pointed out . . . the story in the Washington Times Herald was the first notice that the Civil Service Commission had of the theft of the records and, likewise, it was the first notice which the FBI had of this particular instance inasmuch as we have no jurisdiction whatsoever over the Civil Service Commission, nor is it the responsibility of the FBI to protect and safeguard the official records of that organization...
Princeton's defeat by Yale, 49-46, in the Tigers' league opener, was a mild surprise, inasmuch as Princeton had done very well in earlier contests against formidable non-league opposition in the East and Middle West. There is no thought around the league of under-estimating the Tigers, however. From the floor, Princeton outscored Yale, but unusual accuracy on the part of the Elis from the foul-line, coupled with less than indifferent success by the Princetonians in the same department, provided Yale with its winning margin. Busse, Winston, Captain Dan Carmichael and Bartlett all scored well from...