Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burden saddled upon him by the carelessness of others. Finally, by removing insurance from the realm of law, the state will be saved those bickerings between insurance men and politicians it recently experienced. In the face of so many powerful considerations the present compulsory insurance law requires more than mere legislative inertia to justify its continuance on the statute books...
...Camerlynck was no mere polylinguist. He comprehended many tongues, but he translated only between English and French. His German was too correct and stilted. It was only to his chosen and special art that this little man from Flanders brought facility and fidelity which at times seemed miraculous. Gliding like an actor imperceptibly into the rôle of the statesman for whom he was translating, Professor Camerlynck would seem to become by turns Statesmen Lloyd George, Clémenceau, Wilson, Balfour, Hughes, Briand, Dawes or perhaps that wily Greek, old Eleutherios Venizelos. "We Greeks!" M. Camerlynck would...
...years 1910 to 1929?" In the early primeval times of Big Business the Elder Morgan was simply the biggest, most voracious brontosaurus. In the present years of Titanic Business it is the Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that the Allies wanted to borrow...
...loyalty of us princes to the British Crown is no mere figure of speech!" declared the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, notorious some years ago as "Mr. A." (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), the victim of an English woman who blackmailed...
...established piano factories nearly all are running part time, with thousands of skilled workmen laid off or reduced to making radios. Four years ago the British Isles were buying 22,000 German pianos annually. With the enactment of the McKenna tariff that figure has fallen to a mere 1500 in 1928. Similar tariff enactments by other countries have cut German piano exports from...