Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris, Beautiful Paris. For all its sumptuousness and its galaxy of the first names of France, the chateau was a bore with bowing courtiers incapable of scraping up an amusing conversation. As everyone knew, life in the provinces was dreary too, and anyone who lived there was considered a mere "vegetable with powers of locomotion." Some noblemen of wit and wealth defied the King's pique and choseParis. It was a dirty city. The streets were choked with mud and refuse, and the stench could be smelled two miles outside the city gates. Here, a nobleman lived...
...bigger exemptions went down, 210 to 204. Every G.O.P. Representative was either present or paired-a rare occurrence in the House-and only ten of them stood up with the Democrats. Under the spur of Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, the Democrats' showing was just as impressive: a mere nine Democrats, four of them Rayburn's fellow Texans, sided with the Republicans, and only six were not recorded at all. Not in years had party lines held so firmly on a legislative-as distinguished from a procedural-issue. The vote offered some hope for a return to party regularity...
...accomplished in the way of voluntary insurance plans, paid for by the company alone or with the help of employees. In 1939, only a handful of Americans in industry were covered by medical insurance v. some 32 million today. But many companies still think of health insurance plans as mere fringe benefits and necessary evils, do not institute them until forced by the unions. About a fourth of U.S. industrial workers are still un covered, and even those who are insured often get inadequate protection. Health insurance payments last year covered only 17% of the medical bills paid...
...grew older, Dodgson learned the art of finding or creating "spirits of peace" that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing...
...sponsoring the Harvard Composers' series, WHRB, the Music Club, and Adams House have given more than mere lip-service to local talent. They have provided an opportunity for these composers to crystallize, through the test of performance, the course which their music will take in the future...