Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee on Admissions has not always been limited to taking a mere handful of transfers. Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, himself a transfer into Harvard, notes that "not too long ago, the one-year senior, the person who transfered to get a Harvard degree, was quite common." In the late 1940's the College took about 100 transfer students a year...
...from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control, he said, the law has gone through four stages of development: 1) the strict law, e.g., Roman law, composed of a set of completely rigid rules, 2) equity and natural law, insisting on reason and morality over mere rules, 3) maturity of law, based on equality of individual rights and recognizing property and contract as fundamental ideas, and 4) socialization of law, transferring its emphasis from individual to social interests...
Undoubtedly the Nacionalistas will try to lure Macapagal into their party. But Macapagal, convinced that the country must develop a two-party system based on principles and not mere personalities, rebuffed his friend Magsaysay's own efforts to sway him through four years, and stuck with the Liberals in defeat, fighting its corrupt elements from within...
While these good results may be paramount to the psychologist looking on the discipline prescribed in The Cloud as a kind of do-it-yourself therapy, they are mere byproducts to the true mystic, for whom union with God is the only aim. "If you desire to have this aim concentrated and expressed in one word," said the author of The Cloud, "take but one short word of a single syllable . . . The word GOD or the word LOVE . . . This word shall be your shield and your spear, whether you ride in peace or in war. With this word you shall...
...CRITIC'S WIFE: "The producer feels that the mere physical presence of a wife depresses the critic, lowers his spirits, clogs his areas of good will, and leaves his head rattling with phrases like 'witless,' 'tasteless,' and 'below the level of the professional theatre' . . . 'What if a doctor had to bring his wife along when he performed an operation?' the producer will ask you. 'Can't you see her sitting there murmuring, 'Here's a nice suture, dear, and why don't you try this clamp...