Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procured the needed whiskey from friends who were secretly preserving it for just such anticipated emergencies in their own households, risking all the while discovery and imprisonment because of such mere possession...
...than reiterative, however, these exercises must be. When men from the Universities meet with men from the industries to confirm, each with the blessing of that section of the American people which he represents, this experiment in graduate education, the Harvard School of Business Administration, no one can discover mere redundance in the addresses...
...anyone who knows how sensitive about such matters the true Bostonian is, how sincerely the readers of the Transcript feel such a blow, this item of news shadows the flight of Lindbergh, makes the flood a mere incident, and destroys the importance of Bozo's return to this hub of greater Boston. Small wonder that sleepless heads beat upon the blanched pillow of Beacon Hill; that hatred of Sacco and his partner in disaster faded as this news flashed. Many even forgot the fight to remove the Chevrolet sign from Park Square as they meditated upon the myth of Mary...
...that the principle of student government has come to be generally though not universally accepted, there being some who continue to look upon it as a mere corruption of student privilege and as a detriment to the efficiency of an institution, its regulations and practical control subject themselves to closer investigations. It is in this agency that Princeton undergraduates are proposing certain changes, in the hope that a renovated system will avoid any that a renovated system will avoid any such disturbance as marked the career of the Princeton Student Council during the present year, when it came into strained...
...Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text. ¶Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season's literature...