Word: merely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumania, her trade reduced to a mere exchange of goods with the Central Powers by the closing of the Dardanelles, approached crisis before she threw in her lot with the Allies. The peasants-a great majority of the population in each country-unable to buy industrial goods, finally ceased to produce crops for the market, practically fell back on subsistence farming...
Obviously a mere whaling conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would...
...living up to her sworn obligations. When Adolf Hitler came to power the South Tyrolese hoped that this exponent of "One People, One State, One Leader" would soon look into their case. The Führer soon showed, however, that he would not allow the plight of a mere 200,000 Germans to interfere with the destiny of some 80,000,000. At Rome, in May 1938, the Führer declared before Il Duce that the present Italian-German frontiers were inviolable...
Dedicating a WPA swimming pool in the small French-speaking city of Opelousas, Governor Long announced that he intended to investigate every complaint of wrongdoing on the part of State officials. He hotly denied that as Lieutenant Governor he had been "a mere rubberstamp" for Governor Leche and begged the people not to condemn the entire State Government just because a few irregularities had turned up. Bellowed he: "Jesus Christ had twelve men and one of them turned...
...THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done a business of as much as $50,000,000 a year...