Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other club members, however, believed the mix-up involved more than mere negligence on the part of the executive committee. "There was so much mismanagement, it's beyond the point of believability," one club member, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday...
John inherited his share of Scotch business acumen and has been running business enterprises since he was a mere toddler. His youthful passion for sports had to be checked when he developed bone chips in his ankles and elbows. Unable to play football, he spent seventh and eighth grade taking photographs of the players on his junior high football team and then sold the glossies to his schoolmates...
Somewhere in all of this Hampton is trying to ask the old "Who are the real savages?" question. A noble enough endeavor, no doubt, but the mere juxtaposition of primitive (pure) natives with westernized fellow Indians or vicious white men cannot answer any of the questions Hampton raises in this show...
Some of the euphoria clearly passed the bounds of logic, and by week's end a reaction was setting in. Though the dollar continued gaining abroad, stock and bond prices fell back somewhat. The drop indicated that realism was replacing mere enthusiasm. Carter's new program is welcome because it is far better for Government to face up to its difficulties than to continue temporizing. But the fact that the Administration and the Federal Reserve felt such drastic steps to be necessary indicates how seriously the economic situation had been deteriorating...
What Liverpudlians got for their generosity is no mere ostentatious pile of stone. The cathedral's clean, neo-Gothic lines and interior have already been widely praised; Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, a connoisseur of architecture, pronounced it "one of great buildings of the world." Yet its architect, a Roman Catholic named Giles Scott, was a 22-year-old unknown when he chosen from among 102 competitors in 1903. Later Scott go on to design London's Waterloo Bridge and the massive Battersea power station, and to rebuild the bomb-gutted House of Commons after World...