Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits with loathing at the mere mention of regular doctors...
...would have been very easy for Professor Spargo to lapse into sociology and to give ingenious reasons, neatly a priori, for some of these legends. The scholars of the Renaissance, which was so baldly contemptuous of the mediaeval tradition, loved to interpret this legend weaving as mere monkery; more detachted observers are willing to admit that it is, above all, a tribute to the rich common life of the middle age. That cage, as Domenico Comparetti has carefully shown, understood and venerated the literary art of Virgil, and its educated men read and preserved the Virgilian manuscripts with a diligence...
Following a continual reversing of the field of action and a foul on the Tiger trio which reduced their score to a mere half point, the Princeton score was again raised by a long shot from Sullivan. Lowell Dillingham, Harvard No. 2, sent in the first goal of the evening for his team, which was soon followed by a tally by Captain Davis to end the first chukker 2 to 11-2 in favor of the Cambridge contingent...
That some means of avoiding this must be invented there is no doubt. But how this is to be done without virtually taking away the political independence of Austria and making her a mere ward of the League presents an unusually thorny problem. Everything is on the side of the Nazis; it will not be surprising if they are able to brave all the rest of Europe, and set up a Fascist government in Vienna which in everything but name will be merely a sub-station of the main Brown House in Berlin. NEMO...
Because he has several times been Finance Minister, a mere suggestion let fall last week by Professor Englis of Brno Law School was enough to force down 7% on international exchange the Czechoslovak crown which has remained rock firm on gold for the last twelve years...