Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France have copies. In efforts to calm M. Corbin he was told of an "ancient statute" under which if the higher Admiralty officials feel the Government is endangering Britain's Naval security it becomes their "right and duty" to endanger it still further by resigning in a body. The mere threat of such an Admiralty strike, so M. Corbin was told, would mean national panic and the Government's fall. In short, Premier Laval could not have the promised papers last week. German secrets possessed by Britain must be concealed from France, her Wartime ally with all that that implied...
...legislation, which includes a ban on damage suits against the Government, was passed last spring but is not yet effective. Most Canadian quidnuncs suspected the Liberal Premier of trying to bluff the Quebec power companies into a speedy revision of the onerous terms but the mere hint of repudiation made conservatives throughout the British Empire raise their hands in holy horror (TIME, April 15). For these were no ordinary course-of-business contracts: solely on the basis of Hydro's promise to buy, the private companies sold bonds to the public to finance enormous expansions up & down the swift...
...baseball game began soon afterwards with a cold wind blowing and the crowd shivering. After the first few innings, the people began to melt away and a crowd which had been capacity at the first of the game soon dwindled to a mere nothing...
...facts, false theories, innuendoes, insinuations, academic theories and bitter tirades. The opinion of an examiner, no matter how inexperienced or unqualified, was accepted by the Commission with a finality that made State and U. S. Supreme Court rulings, or decisions of the Internal Revenue department, or State utility commissions, mere scraps of paper...
...Mere assertions, unsigned and unidentified letters, selected excerpts, individual opinions, were elevated to the dignity of best evidence. . . . After each hearing a newspaper summary was released. There have been 264 releases to date...