Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Building Resentment. Thus Cyprus' tragedy deepened, as relentlessly and starkly as if Aeschylus had written it, and mere humans could not change it. To the British the hanged Cypriots were terrorists; to the Greeks they were martyrs...
...rest was mere formality as Place and Gottlieb lost 6-2, 6-3, to leave the varsity with a 5-4 League victory. In the remaining doubles, Kay and Ian Giannetti won 6-4, 6-2, and Purnell and Canfield triumphed 7-5, 6-2 to complete the Crimson's scoring
...Britain could send only "a mere marshal of its diplomatic corps" [April 23] to the wedding of Prince Rainier II and Miss Kelly but was able to do considerably better for two visiting Russian commoners. I am wearied of paying taxes to support ungrateful people who feel they are too good to attend the wedding of a fine American girl...
...Enzo Ferrari, the mere fact of victory is less vital than interpreting aright the lessons that the races burn into his automobiles. Says he: "The importance of a race is not so much who is the victor, but the technical results that show whether the engineer is on the right road and progressing." To make sure that he stays on the right road, Ferrari hustles his cars back to his Maranello factory after a race. There they are disassembled and minutely examined by their maker for flaws and hints on how to improve their performance...
...term recklessly vulgarized and deserves better treatment. Academic freedom can be defined as that right which aids scholars in the pursuit of truth. This freedom ceases to be a right and becomes a revocable privilege when the student or teacher loses truth as the end and substitutes mere expression of opinion. If human fulfillment, to which the academy is devoted, is to be realized, an immutable truth, observed as the mind may comprehend it and confirmed by conscience, must be recognized...