Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greene: nearly $2,000,000 for Negro, a mere $15,000 for white...
...often spend half an hour without anyone even bothering to take his name, to the smallest counter in a department store. Once upon a time, department-store salesmen used to break into a sprint the minute the elevator door slid open. Now, after more than a decade of mere order-taking and shelf-straightening, many of them wait until called by the floor supervisor. As Manager John Glick, of Robinson's department store in Beverly Hills, pointed out: "These days, the salesmen say, 'Why work when the customer is going to sell himself anyway?' " Furthermore, the salesman...
...French-Canadians are proud of our virility, but we do not consider our amorous pursuits a mere program of nationalized procreation. To say that our off spring will be "short and squat, with their eyes close together" is an intolerable conjecture. Do you seriously believe that such a hardy stock will bear your personal insult without seeking some measure of revenge...
Businessmen and educators have not always recognized this. While there are a few businessmen who still regard college professors as fuzzy-minded and likely to be radicals, and a few educators who still look on businessmen as mere moneygrubbers, the mutual distrust has generally disappeared in the mutual need. The rapidly expanding U.S. economy has made college graduates more important than ever to industry. In turn, universities must depend increasingly on corporations for contributions, since high taxes have all but cut off the flow of the big individual contributions that built the private schools...
Dennis hitting on eight or 17 field goal attempts, was hot from the corner; Condon, allowing the speedy Ellsworth Morgan a mere eight points, was great all over the court. And the other half of Yale's deadly one-two punch, Captain Spence Schnaitter, was hold to but six points by tech combination of a bad ankle and the tight guarding of Dick Manning...