Word: insofar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insofar as this office is concerned, no restrictions or rules not now in operation are planned...
Friends of Chairman Aldred smiled a negative. When he backs an inventor he does not disparage him, does not deal in little white dogs. Financier Aldred backed Mr. Gillette when he was a poor Socialist. On him he conferred eternal youth, insofar as that can be done by printing upon millions of razor-blade cartons a picture of King Camp Gillette taken in 1901. Today Mr. Gillette has prospered so greatly that he owns a California estate where cattle and oranges are bred and grown "for fun." He was pleased last week by the value of one hundred cents...
After all, Trotsky's contributions to the success of the Bolshevist experiment, insofar as it may be called a success, are considerable-just how considerable it would be difficult precisely to determine...
...Russell has been unfortunate in basing all his logic upon the strength of the lingual link between the two nations. Insofar as it concerns the State of Illinois this strength is non existent, for a law recently passed by the state legislature makes the official language of Illinois no longer English, but American. Mr. Russell's beliefs hold; however, for the rest of the United States, which are still unconsciously guilty of this crime against international good will. In the mean time there will probably be few who see in a similarity of tongues the seeds of an approaching Armageddon...
Science congratulated newspapers in general for giving more attention to the subject than they used to give. Science, unscientific, failed to indicate that the above column-inches, except insofar as they show a great advance in mass column inches over five years ago, are not a true indication of the respective papers' interest in the subject. For example the voluminous Times may be proportionately less interested in a story than is the slimmer World, and yet print twice as many column-inches...