Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling of a Five-Power Naval Conference, the other Powers being as free to put in their...
Alcohol. "The greatest single source of liquor supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit...
With eyes snapping Juliu Maniu decreed acceptance of the German bid, well-nigh prohibitive though it was. "Our need for locomotives at this time is basic and fundamental!" said he, as if to rebuke the slow low bidders. Ferreting correspondents learned that a down payment of $5,000 will be made on each German locomotive, successive payments to be on the instalment plan with a carrying charge...
...millions of Brazilians were positive that delectable "Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio de Manha complacently compared the goodwill voyages of "Miss Brazil" and Herbert Hoover...
First, the U. S. urges and well-nigh demands not mere limitation but actual and prompt reduction of naval armaments...