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Doubtless the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not be held to this exact meaning of his words, but even in the loosest sense he clearly meant that the United Kingdom will not risk the Italian attack which oil sanctions might touch off unless a preponderance of other Great Powers pledge themselves to spring instantly to the armed aid of Britannia at her very first cry of "Help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Rats & Vermin!" Dynamite at the Conference was Rumania's wild-eyed little Jan Motza, a leader of the Iron Guard which is Fascist in the loosest meaning of the term. "I come from a prison full of vermin and rats!" dramatically announced the Iron Guardsman. "Yes, my Fascist friends, from vermin and rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pax Romanizing | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Governor Roosevelt is by no means the whole Democratic party "nor. once in the White House, will he 'be the whole U. S. Government. In him are concentrated only in the loosest sense the mixed mass of ideas, opinions, notions, policies, theories and conceptions which will dominate the country for four years. In Congress. Democrat battles Democrat as to what is good party doctrine. The Democratic Press of William Randolph Hearst is rarely in tune with that of Adolph, Ochs, Baruch, Young, Baker & Co. hold ideas opposite from those of Dill, Long, Wheeler, McAdoo & Co.?yet all are Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Expect | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...bill?well, I've spoken before all of 'em and I wouldn't consider their opinion on a matter of morals. ... Go from the pineries of Michigan to the cedar keys of Florida and from rocky Maine to San Francisco, and you'll find that wherever the Sabbath is loosest and freest the prisons are fullest. I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sunday and Sabbath | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

SOLDIERS FIELD, May 16.--Close to 13,000 bystanders escaped injury this afternoon when the bat-swingers of the CRIMSON annihilated the Lampoon band of mud-casters. The infielding of the comedians was of the loosest variety, while their fly-catchers were completely outclassed, and their pitcher had soon lost all ability, to put any "stuff" on the ball. The 17 home-runs and 13 triples made by the scribes are evidence enough of their batting prowess; but they also knocked out nine doubles, the pitcher, and many other opponents. Their base-running was of the highest character, Gates' steal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cohorts Crash Out 17 Home Runs and 13 Triples For Tremendous 23-2 Victory Over Comic Collegians | 5/17/1923 | See Source »

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