Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance a necessity. Soothing as it is, Malan's dream of the happy savage will not cure his internal disorders; the Union has offered the natives real education too long to force them to accept mere subsistence knowledge from their schools...
...next hundred years or so, the names of various Harvard and Yale alumni appear in the list of the university's presidents. But the bonds between the parent Big Three and Columbia are more than mere blood ties. With the coming of the present century, Columbia joined its elders as a university truly cosmopolitan in composition as well as in outlook...
...Defense Department was buying 4,000,000 different items; Wilson and Kyes discovered that a mere 300 accounted for more than half its dollar purchases. Said Kyes to the Pentagon generals: "You've been walking all around this elephant. Let's concentrate on saving money on these 300 items first. We'll worry about the nits and lice later." Among the biggest cost items were aircraft engines. The Air Force found that they had been improved so much that their life expectancy was far greater than realized, hence fewer spare engines were needed. Saving: $500 million...
...ended, there was no doubt that the economic weather was changing. But what was it changing to? Did the clouds mean a mere shower or a furious storm...
...Gymnasts were able to hold Sacks to a mere 14 points, however, before he fouled out, but Ed Blodnick helped fill the slack with ten, and Ed Condon added seven more. The Crimson piled up a field goal margin of 18 to 11, to make up for a deficit in the free throw column...