Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German editorial comment, last week, was to the effect that while the Versailles Treaty stands all mere lapidary inscriptions are immaterial...
Authority. Depending on his temperament, a Speaker may either dominate the House by a smashing exercise of his authority or sink to the obscurity of a mere preserver of order. Last of the titans...
...Menshevik, not a Bolshevik. That is to say, he once belonged to the "Smaller Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki" have long since obliterated their rivals, now constitute the Communist Party, and are the political masters of Russia. As a mere Menshevik, the Chief Justice is notably deferential to the potent Soviet Prosecutor. He, the dread Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, onetime Commander of the Red Army, plays both hero and villain in the Shahkta Trial...
...Lightly as the Bosses appraise the worth of women in politics, they saw to it that Houston need yield nothing to Kansas City in the number, the beauty, the distinction of its lady delegates. Mabel Walker Willebrandts were scarce, but the Bosses could outmatch Leona Curtis Knight, daughter of mere Vice-Presidential Curtis, with Emily Smith Warner, favorite daughter of the Brown Derby himself. Delegate Warner was not unbefriended. Her mother, husband,* sister, three brothers, many in-laws, were among the watched and watching observers. But she missed her father, sent him cheering messages...
...Marshal, himself again, had characteristically concealed his convalescence until the last dramatic moment. Impressionable Polish Deputies, stirred once more by the mere presence of him whose glory is that he led Poland to independence from...