Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Isolated Towns. The floods were mothered by another hurricane, Diane, which swept toward the U.S. from the mid-Atlantic. But Diane turned out to be a weak sister, and soon after hitting the Carolina coast she became a mere squalling rainstorm. When the fading Diane hit the hot and humid Northeast, she released a torrent of rain-the moisture that Diane had sucked out of the ocean when she was still a whirling hurricane. For 24 hours the rains fell from burst clouds, filling rivers and streams, inundating large areas of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York...
...England, he brought along four of Mrs. Nicks's offspring as his godchildren. One of these was named Elihu. After Yale died in 1721, the young Nickses sued his widow for a portion of his estate that would in any age far exceed the normal expectations of mere godchildren. "Without wishing to cast aspersions on the character of the founder [sic] of Yale University," says Mayor Tibbits, "I cannot help wondering what the real relationship was between him and Mrs. Nicks...
...Simenon is best known as the creator of pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret, the kindly, plodding and vaguely troubled French detective. But the keenest Simenon fans have long since stopped thinking of him as a mere mystery writer or even as a literary psychologist. To them he is a real novelist with a special view of life that is instantly conjured up in their minds by the simple mention of his name...
Golden Water. A mere five centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...
...most cases, concentration of production "appears to be accompanied by keen competition." In a changing and uncertain world, "the only safe thing to do i to study consumer tastes and trends, to f ish research, and to strive vigorously to grew." Mere size alone is no indication of how rapidly a company will grow. Between 1935 and 1953, for example, the giant U.S. Steel Corp. increased sales 397%, but smaller Bethlehem Steel grew 980%, and Jones & Laughlin 880%. In rubber, General Tire grew 1,225%, Firestone 750%, while the two biggest companies, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber, increased far less. "Certainly...