Word: insofar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened the door of a windowless closet and there found something that whimpered and blinked and ate food scraps from a pan. It was the Riley's 12-year-old child. Edith, scarred and filthy. Her case, broached to horrified Washington. D. C. two months ago, was settled insofar as the law could settle it last week...
...impulses hitherto ascribed, but was avoiding another dud on the Holy Cross game (Dr. Huey picked Harvard to win easily last year) and, furthermore, didn't know a polo mallet from a wicker-basket. He concluded his remarks with the slur that the prophet had been out of practice, insofar as the sons of Nassau were concerned, for the past five years, and didn't know they even had a polo team...
...Further, I promise, insofar as in me lies, to shun the public press or public gatherings of laymen where my attitude might be regarded as seeking self-advancement; to avoid selfishness and commercialism in my professional practice; to influence patients to appreciate their financial responsibilities to their medical advisers; to adjust my compensation to the circumstances of my patients and to make such charges commensurate with the services rendered and to avoid discrediting my profession by seeking unwarranted compensation...
...paid the bills. It was on the editorial page of his morning editions that old Joseph Pulitzer's torch was carried most high and brightly until his death in 1911 and thereafter. And it was to the man in charge of that editorial page that other U. S. newspapermen, insofar as they regarded the World as the Law & the Prophets, paid homage as to their Moses, their prophet of Liberalism. This week a great dinner was given by the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan for 41-year-old Walter Lippmann, the past seven years the World's chief editorial...
...dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg. The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface...