Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead of being a mere attempt to cover a vast and familiar ground more rapidly than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book...
...high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...
...mere disinterested witnesses of one of the most spectacular and ridiculous outbreaks of ill-feeling that has ever occurred between colleges, it is none of our business how long Harvard and Princeton choose to nurse their small grudges against one another. The rights and wrongs of the original dispute are of no consequence to us, nor should they remain so to either of these once friendly rivals. Both universities have relatively so much in common, both in academic standards and athletic tradition, that any permanent estrangement should be mutually disapproved. That they will eventually resume athletic relations, perhaps as soon...
Under Mr. Lane's leadership the library has prospered. From a mere 200,000 volumes it has grown to become one of the world's finest and largest libraries with a collection of some two and a half million books. It has been kept up-to-date, and its accessibility has grown with its size under the capable supervision of Mr. Lane. From the original Gore Hall the library has moved to the magnificence of Widener with its never-ending stacks, and Mr. Lane managed the intricate process of moving it without once letting the change interfere with the routine...
...role of reigning queens though splendorous is indefinite. Their duty to the State may be irreproachably discharged by mere male bearing.* Even more nebulous is the aggregate contribution to statecraft of the wives of Premiers, Ministers and Opposition leaders. They are too numerous to be counted, and too much at cross purposes to be broadly significant. But today a new class of august women loom as worthy of inspection. They are the Consorts of the world's six major Dictators. Theirs is the simplified problem and the dazzling opportunity of swaying a nation by persuading, cajoling or nagging...