Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly three-quarters of a century, the London cats have had to make do on their 1873 scale; the cats in Manchester have struggled along on a mere one shilling. The only other British workers so discriminated against, reported the Guardian, are Britain's ?5,000-a-year high court judges, who likewise have had no raises since...
With George Abbott to stage the show, no character very long remains stationary, no telephone silent, no door unentered; noises abound, gadgets accumulate, throngs assemble. But what is offered in the name of comedy is for the most part mere commotion...
...Cambridge apartments, and compiled a list of rooms that met their standards. In 1945, when the University decided to take its own housing office out of Straus Hall, it referred all student househunters to the PBH lists. As the number of apartments and rentors rose, what was a mere listing turned into a minor real estate establishment. Devoted to graduates only, it now uses space PBH needs for broader University services...
...mere presence, however, revitalize an offense which could win only 13 to 0 over Buffalo (beaten the week before by less-than-mighty Cortland State Teachers, 41 to 0), or 13 to 7 against Rutgers (losers a week earlier to Princeton...
...Aleister Crowley is one of the few who deliberately devoted a lifetime to creating a "religion" out of every vice in the catalogue. At 14, he seduced the kitchen maid while his mother was at church, and butchered a cat to see whether it had nine lives. These were mere preliminary excursions; he inherited a fortune from his pious father and went on to broader fields. At 23, he became Brother Perdurabo ("I will endure to the end") of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The group was interested in communication with good or angelic spirits in the "beyond...