Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere list of the specialized fields in which men can find accupation in the aircraft industry shows at once both the great diversification on the industry and its extreme draft toward specialization. These interests fall under three large classifications: design, research, and production...
With experience in instruction at European fencing clubs, his duties here are not new. But be regards them as more than mere exercise. As every practice begins, he performs the age old courtesy of holding his eyes and blade in a steady salute to his opponent, a rite recalling the time when a man was judged by his conduct on the fencing strip. Marion would rather have a gentlemanly loser than an ungracious winner...
These peace negotiations with the Communists in Korea have no chance of success, said John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History. He pointed out that the Communists regard negotiations as mere maneuvers in "a permanent and total world struggle," and not as a means of attaining an end of hostilities. For this reason, he added, the admission of Red China to the U.N. in the near future would he impossible...
...cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes d'état, but General de Gaulle has been demoted to a mere homme politique...
Actor Wayne, now that he is undisputed top draw at the box office, seems to feel that his mere presence in a picture is enough - and acting might be too much. In Hondo, which lists him as coproducer. he talks a little more than usual, but on the other hand, plays up his physical presence in a rather peculiar way. On five separate occasions he takes long, slow walks away from the camera, rolling his muscular buttocks like a male Marilyn Monroe as he goes...