Word: insofar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior in Harvard College the publication of the Class Album has come to be an event with perhaps a bit more of sentiment in it than attaches to the formality of receiving a degree. It is not strange. The whole record of those four years, insofar as it can be photographed and walled up in sentences and paragraphs, is collected between the covers, and to give the Album a place on even the dustiest shelf is to possess, when it was richest, a corner of the Yard...
...Insofar as the Monroe Doctrine refers to Brazil, the Argentine, Chile and Peru, Canada would probably stand aside. It is the future of the West Indies that concerns her. If it should ever happen that any of the islands now owned by other European nations should become salable, the Canadian might find his own interest leading him to urge Britain to purchase it, and he might be unwilling to admit that the Monroe Doctrine should be invoked to prevent the acquisition...
...Insofar as has been ascertained...
...Court of St. James's in London. Mr. Kellogg looked down at the paper, took pen in hand, looked up and said he supposed the conference realized that he was about to sign, subject to the reservation that his signature bound the U. S. Government "only insofar as the rights of the U. S. were concerned...
...beginning of a new administration, but rather the resumption† of that which was inaugurated in this chamber two years ago. It is well understood, I am sure, that it is my purpose to continue, as I am convinced it is the desire of my state that I should, insofar as changing conditions will permit, the program and policies then launched. . . ." The whole ceremony took only 16 minutes...