Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college system, made possible by the gift of Edward S. Harkness, also came in for a share of praise. "The colleges have passed from the stage of mere residential units and . . . are adding intellectual and aesthetic values to the social advantages they offer," he said. "The increasing number of distinguished visitors who are brought into close touch with Yale students and teachers provide educational assets beyond estimate...
...their light treatment, the authors, Earle Crooker and Lowell Brentano, have kept the production from being a mere musical biography, and by the introduction of "Live" have prevented it from becoming a mere period piece; moreover, the transition between scenes--America and France, the present and the past--is made admirably clear by a writing device known as "Telautograph Projection...
This district is particularly interesting to the geographer as it is an ice bowl, the greatest area of glacial ice known outside the Polar regions. Many of Alaska's most famous glaciers are mere outlet trickles from this-survivor of the Pleistocene...
...good money when he sees a chance to get his money's worth is nothing new. In China, where J. Stalin-an Asiatic-believes the underdogs have guts to fight, the outpouring of money, munitions, war planes and supplies of all kinds from the Soviet Union makes a mere $2,000,000 look like pink chicken feed...
...purpose of the anti-trust laws will be furthered if advertising is limited to its proper function of building up consumption. . . ." How this limitation was effected in the Ford and Chrysler cases was readily apparent in Mr. Arnold's announcement that "antitrust prosecution will not be compromised upon mere agreement to cease the practices complained...