Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That barrage of tongue-twisters may be duck soup for Chancellor Chamberlain and "to the more responsible and more informed section of opinion in the United States," but are they not a bit heavy for the mere Middle West...
Capitalized Construction. Another idea from Albany called for the Government to remove expenditures for public works from the regular budget paid out of current receipts and capitalize them separately by means of a bond issue. Of this trick Speaker Garner snapped: "Mere bookkeeping...
General Smuts did not join Judge Roos last week, but mere talk that a Smuts-Roos coalition might be formed started a frantic rush on South Africa's Reserve Bank. In three days nearly $14,000,000 in Union pounds was either presented for exchange into Union gold sovereigns which the populace hoarded or transferred into accounts abroad. This catastrophic drain meant that the Reserve Bank's gold reserve of $55,000,000 would be exhausted in a few days. With urgence if not fear in his voice. Reserve Bank Governor Johannes Postmus told Premier Hertzog that something...
...force Russians into this new and less grandiose groove the Soviet Government and the Communist Party-both dominated by Joseph Stalin-have just taken drastic steps: 1) Under a new decree the mere fact that a Russian is a "worker" will no longer entitle him to a food card. Instead of going to a civic food shop as formerly, he will present his card at a shop in the factory where he is employed and will receive food only so long as he keeps his job in that factory. Thus the State hopes to pin down "floaters," reduce labor turnover...
...served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...