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Word: merely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such bracing persecution is replaced by good will, the "Church's spiritual integrity is often threatened. Therefore the Church is to be cleansed from all that would transform [it] into a society for the preservation and promotion of Christianity" and of whatever would transform Christianity itself into a mere "philosophy and ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans & Mr. Protestant | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...when Diem's C-47 touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: New Directions | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...long as republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is "His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Call Me King | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...contract date of Sept. 30. It looked as though there would be more than that number of shots ready for civilians by then. But beyond urging vaccine allocations to states by population, the U.S. Public Health Service was still doing nothing positive to control distribution. It relied instead on mere recommendations that physicians and other health workers come first, to be followed by workers in transportation and other essential industries. National Drug and Lederle sent their first releases to jobbers in a dozen cities across the U.S., left it to them to decide how to dole out shots. In general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Shots: Who & When | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...taste for booze, and the symbolical death -Brennan falls from the height of Gaudi's grotesque unfinished Barcelona Church of the Holy Family. It is all pretty thick stuff, but an angry, eloquent passion against the paralyzing Red ticks in Europe's soft underbelly redeems it from mere melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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