Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force of a paw. His role was mere ritual. Often he pondered resigning, often refrained...
...sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably a mere advance guard of publicity to prepare Newfoundlanders for U. S. dollar penetration...
...March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief indication that Rumania's ousted Tycoon may be down...
Smart readers began to have qualms when they read the first "Fighting Frankau Editorial": "The incessant toil, the incessant thought which have gone to the making of this 'new paper' . . . have given me joys and pains, compared whereto the joys and pains of mere novel writing seem vapid...
...value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business world. As the problems of manufacture and distribution grow, they increasingly demand for their administration minds capable of grasping the delicate abstractions and involved theory upon which they depend. Business success no longer involves a mere doing of the right thing by intuition or experience but is only obtained by those whose minds are trained to recognize the entire implication of the affairs with which they deal...