Word: merely
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...inclinations, but also the talents of a natural athlete. The more spectacular a sport, the more he liked it. For a while, he favored jai alai and polo. He had barely learned about the dangers of bobsledding when he was picked to represent Spain in the winter Olympics. "The mere fact that we race requires no courage on our part," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But he was frank to admit that he was often afraid. "I think what frightens me most is that when I have actually lost control of the car there is absolutely nothing...
...public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used to herculean feats that it expects a home run every turn at bat. A mere brace of singles-or merely excellent business-is no longer enough...
...Iron" plant can now be built in Texas for $23 million or on the East Coast for $24 million v. $47 million for a blast furnace with the same capacity. Squires estimated that fuel costs in gas-rich Texas would be a mere $4 a ton v. $15 there for imported coke. On the East Coast, he said, fuel costs of direct reduction would be closer to those of a blast furnace ($6 v. $10), but would still give direct reduction a considerable advantage...
...Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon. In its vastness, human figures are reduced to mere dots of color. To his contemporaries, and to generations after, such scenes appeared as "the very truth of Heaven...
Flying 2,200 feet above the 50-yard target area, at a clip of 80 m.p.h., Weatherly-White dropped to the ground a mere 9 ft., 3 1/2 in. from the target center, amid the cheers of almost 1,000 spectators, who were held back by U.S. Marine Corps guards, in dress uniform, and officers of the Connecticut State Police...