Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What then was the clamorous Battle of the Budget all about? Were Capitol Hill's cuts mere political flimflam? Well, not exactly, said Anderson-Brundage. Congress and the Administration, between them, did in fact cut $2 billion out of the original budget. But the trimmings were more than offset by "a few upward revisions" partly due to inflation, partly due to ballooning programs that only Congress can change. Items: ¶ Bumper crops on the farms bumped up the cost of price supports by $739 million (total outlay for agriculture programs in the revised budget: $5 billion, or more than...
Undaunted 'Cliffites will make yet another attempt to prove their superiority over the mere men of Harvard when the Annex field hockey team meets the Business School squad today at 4 p.m. on the Quad...
Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere shuttling between the plushy and the preachy. It gives no new wrinkle to the lowlifes in highlife. Only the jangled sharpness with which English Actress Ann Todd plays the heroine has any resonance; all else is a blur of echoes and a drone of words...
...famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions of Aubrey's lusty century...
This separation of the Houses and the Council is unfortunate. Where Council representatives are responsible to no organized group, election to that body has degenerated into a mere popularity poll. Unless representatives are somewhat coerced by organizational pressure, few will burden themselevs by making a concentrated effort to find out the needs and opinions of their fellow students...