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Word: merely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Integrators. Tariki and his young assistants are no mere nationalizers; they saw how Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil only to find that he simply could not sell it. Instead, Tariki wants to develop "integrated" operations down to the distant gas pump, with the Arabs taking a share in producing, transporting and marketing the oil. Aramco is willing to give him more money in future concessions but no part in company operations outside Saudi Arabia. Last week the talk of Cairo was about a Tariki plan for an Arab-owned tanker fleet and a new Arab-owned pipeline from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Oil Politics | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Tass scornfully advised Soviet city dwellers, who often live three and four or more to a room, that nothing so luxurious could possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Worker's Buckingham Palace | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...perhaps unfair to choose from Henry Adams' catalogue of the ills of Harvard College the only significant one that remains, 101 years after his commencement. A mere perusal of local "representative" organizations shows, however, that Harvard students are still unable to choose "representative" representatives, and partly as a result of this, the value of "personal or official standards" is still not set as high as Adams or his modern heirs would wish...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Student Representative: Academic Alienation | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...staff of five officers and three enlisted personnel. He was personally responsible for all that appeared in the history, and though he was commissioned to write it, it was not "official" since neither Morison nor the Navy wanted a mere outline of facts without judgements, an uncritical chronicle or catalogue...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: World War II: Faculty Plays Key Role | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...first these exchanges were sparked by mere ball and strike calls. But in the third inning, when the Crimson scored all its runs, Meeham stopped play and charged about the diamond disputing one call for a full five minutes, finally declaring that he was continuing the game under protest...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Johnson's Four-Hitter Edges Tufts, 4-3 | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

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