Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the brief lapse of five years since his death, a man who spent the greater part of his life as a mere exile, a prisoner, and rebel chief, has had his name immortalized in the minds of his countrymen. Throughout Russia, especially in the rural districts where peasants view with alarm any change in the seasoned order of crops, his image is often to be seen enshrined on a stone pedestal, illuminated with lighted candles. Out of a patriotic hero has sprung a veritable demi...
...culprit self-confessed and solely guilty, to that of membership in a community of pious sufferers. Needless to recall, the hypothesis of sole guilt is bindingly included in an article (No. 231) of the Versailles Treaty, while the quotation from the Locarno Pact is taken from its mere preamble and is therefore not binding?though enormously significant...
...Latest annual figures: Italian surplus 475,000; German 408,000; English, 179,000; French a mere...
...process of selection will be a difficult one, and will involve a certain number of mistakes. There is the danger on the one hand of uncongeniality; on the other of too great accord and insufficiently diversified interests. To be successful, the Houses must function as something considerably more than mere dormitories or common eating halls...
...tendency to interpret as prophecies for the future many portions of our report which were in fact mere statements of past happenings...