Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the standpoint of Benito Mussolini, however, the secret Pact of Berchtesgaden served potent notice upon Europe- by the mere fact that it had been made- of an approach to each other of the two most powerful men in Central Europe today, Hitler and Mussolini. It was notice to Britain, France and the League of Nations that Italy's conquest of Ethiopia must receive official diplomatic recognition; that the "war guilt" under which Germans and Italians chafe must be erased in tribute to their "honor"; and that other wishes of these dictators must be granted-or else...
...these are not exercised, buys back such as he may elect at prices determined by him. Strange as it may seem, a considerable number of these options are actually exercised and result in authentic changes of ownership of dogs. The district attorney urges that these purchase options are a mere subterfuge and that the man who buys one of them for $2 merely intends, in truth and in fact, to lay a bet of that amount. Very possibly this is true...
...with the great discovery, which would have been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only 10% longer to Melbourne, Australia than via Suez; only 37% longer to Hong Kong; 44% longer to Singapore; 51% longer to Calcutta; and a mere 77% longer to the "Gateway of India," Bombay. That His Majesty's subjects should be invited by Hector Bywater thus to rearrange the contents of their minds and fix on a new lifeline of Empire is fundamentally significant, "imperial and oceanic...
...religiously eats Wheaties every morning!" I considered the remark interesting in that it illustrates the blind resistance of Minnesota men to the growth of tradition. In this case I strongly suspected that a few traditions would do the young man's family no harm whatever. (He is a mere acquaintance: I hardly know the fellow, really.) My own family, I am happy to report, resembles the socially prominent families of the East in its loyalty to family traditions. As an instance, we wear nothing but Munsingwear garments next to the skin. Nothing else will do, you understand. Moreover...
...honesty of Harvard's faculty but placing himself in a position which, if it does not destroy his self respect at least destroys the respect which anyone else may have for him. It should not be necessary to say that examination graders, whatever else they may be, are not mere masses of motiveless malignity. They do not give D plusses and C plusses for the sheer pleasure of the thing. It is even possible to omagine a humane section man closing one eye, looking to see whether or not there be faces at the window, and surreptitiously worth only...