Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talbot made his rounds, he found that the trouble among dwindling breeds was almost always man, and that there was generally some factor involved besides mere competition for land and food. Rhinos, for instance, are persistently hunted all over Southeast Asia because they are believed to have medicinal value. The Chinese consider powdered rhinoceros horn a powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble...
...important problem when they accused Harvard and M.I.T. of failing to give the City sufficient co-operation on its plans for urban development. In the opinion of many local citizens, Harvard considers itself too important on a national and international level to bother with the problems of the mere community in which it happens to be located. Unfortunately, the University has at times given Cantabrigians good reason for this resentful attitude. No longer can Massachusetts Hall fail to realize, however, that Cambridge's troubles are Harvard's troubles too. Unlike the many families who move out of the city each...
Freshman football coaches are understandably presented with a large undertaking for mere mortals when they start work with a new crop of candidates. Although Yardling coach Bob Margarita had a potentially good team at the outset of the season, he was no exception to this rule...
Discussion, of course, is a fine thing, and the forthcoming conference will provide a splendid chance to dramatize school shortages. Mere talk, however, is a woefully inadequate way to assure a good public school system. Only an expanded program of federal aid can provide the funds acutely needed by American public education...
...arrested last night for being drunk and shouting liberty." The next entry is an Executive Order from the Ministry of Education to the Dean of the university: "Expel the students." And the final prompt response from the Dean: "Orders complied with." The government, in short, was changing universities into mere departments, and teaching chairs were awarded as prizes for political submission...