Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numbered Days. The big question in the minds of Kenya's white settlers is: In multiracial government, when do you stop? Certainly not at a mere six African members in the legislature, say many white men, who feel that they have perhaps five years' grace in which to guide Kenya's future along peaceful channels. Moderate blacks, peacefully agitating, may be a stickier problem than the Mau Mau. No longer able to jail Africans for "seditious" talk about political rights, the white settler gulps hard and smiles wanly. He knows his days are numbered...
...Banker Otto Kahn called him "a greater financier than all of us." Britain awarded him a baronetcy (one of the few hereditary titles ever given a Canadian) for his World War I services in halting shipments of neutral nickel to Germany. In 1932, by investing a mere $8,000,000 in its depressed bonds, Dunn got control of Canada's $75 million Algoma Steel Corp., eventually parlayed the value of Algoma's stock from $7 to $375 a share...
...picture echoes Velasquez' huge masterpiece, The Maids of Honor, at the Prado. But where Velasquez firmly persuades the eye to believe in the painted image, Sargent only beguiles it into a momentary suspension of disbelief. And Velasquez' reverent handling of the way light falls on objects becomes mere virtuosity in Sargent. The fortuitous manner in which Sargent's light picks his flowerlike figures out of the gloom smacks more of the theater than of life. Yet when all this has been said, it is true that no painter alive today-with the possible exception of Augustus John...
...promise of high profits also saw a new type of industrialist rise to prominence in 1955-the empire builder who put together his kingdom by buying stock to take over sickly or tired companies. To some, they were mere "raiders," who might often liquidate a company for its cash. But the raiders regarded themselves as leading a revolt of the stockholders. Right or wrong, they put the pressure on industry's managers to produce or get out. In the proxy war of the year, Financier Louis Wolf son (Washington's Capital Transit, New York Shipbuilding, etc.) fought...
...work under Sherman Adams are no mere spear-carrying extras; they include some of the key men in Government. Staff channels are not so rigid as to prevent any staffer from going straight to the President. Some, by the nature of their duties, have greater need than others for direct access (see dotted lines on chart). But it is the foolish staff member, or, indeed, the Cabinet officer, who fails to keep Adams fully informed about discussions with President Eisenhower...