Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had brought them together was the crushing fact that Great Britain, once the great leader of the Western democracies, was broke. This was no mere phrase: like a man whose savings have dwindled away, Britain simply has not got the money to buy what she needs, much less to maintain her vital role in the world...
...true that some very funny cracks go around the Old South when the crowd there is small. However, a somewhat new experience can be had by giving oneself up to the movie's naive strength. Nevsky is a superhuman hero, completely shove the bourgeois jealousies and physical frailties of mere man, and so is, and should be, repugnant to American audiences. Consequently, the picture cannot be taken seriously or realistically, but as a work of art it is simple, strong, and beautifully organized...
...Evans is too good a Presbyterian to be overly impressed by his church's new pre-eminence and the block-long queues that often form outside it on Sundays. Says he. "Mere size doesn't matter." He would like the world to realize "that Hollywood isn't just a glitter spot; it is also a remarkably Godly spot. The press has given a distorted picture of our community. There is an enormous spiritual hunger here, and one of the finest groups of people in the world. Do you know that more divinity students are coming from Hollywood...
With 1,521 students now in the school, and with a mere 78 departing at the end of the current term, they will be seven short of the 2000 mark this year without considering those returning from leave of absence and special graduate students...
Most Dubliners, regarding the show as a mere Sassenach shindig, stayed away. Some attended for a side attraction: "We go for the cigarets," said a Dubliner, who explained that tobacco was short in town, and the horse show was the sort of place where smokes might be handed round...