Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might attend the tiny Congregational Church at the Brule crossroads, painted cream-yellow an'd freshly trimmed at the staggering cost (for a congregation of 30) of $800. If he went to Brule, who should have the honor of preaching? Should gray-haired, blind John Taylor, a mere layman, be allowed to fill the pulpit as usual? Or should Brule call upon the Rev. B. Ernest Bayes, ordained pastor from big neighboring Superior...
...Publisher William Randolph Hearst released a carefully timed, personally signed editorial, pronouncing Hoover to be "unquestionably the strongest candidate from a mere political point of view" and one by whose nomination the G. O. P. "will strengthen itself for many years to come by aligning . . . elements of foreign descent with the party...
...most potent banker in France, M. Emile Moreau, has never held a post in a private bank. Last week the mere report that he had threatened to resign as Governor of the Bank of France caused consternation among politicians and appeared to have swayed the iron judgment of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare himself. The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis. To this problem M. Moreau brings strictly practical knowledge acquired during an entire lifetime spent in the Treasury and allied services, latterly as Director General of the State...
...That's their proper fodder!" *The gourmand may be a mere glutton. The gourmet must possess an ecstatic discrimination among foods similar to the faculty of the dgustateur of wine...
That "sport" is "work" within the meaning of the Lord God is as clear to Queen Wilhelmina as the fact that the Allah of the Mohammedans undoubtedly meant to prohibit "spirituous liquors" when he prohibited "wine." The mere fact that neither "sport," in the modern sense, nor "spirituous liquors" had been invented when the Gods uttered their respective prohibitions is immaterial...