Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power in Japan's own waters. So far, there is no indication that Britain or the U. S. would under any conditions send into the western Pacific tonnage greater than the total Japanese tonnage. But the chief effect of Japan's naval ambitions is to encourage qualitative rather than quantitative competition from the other powers. Example: Having heard rumors that Japan is building two giant battleships of between 40,000 and 46,000 tons, the British forthwith planned the Lion and Temeraire, each 40,000 tons, and the U. S. drew plans for two 45,000-ton battleships...
...monarchist bloc in 1875. They wanted a job which could easily be turned into a throne. Theoretically the President has great powers, actually none. He is elected to a seven-year term and can succeed himself, but only one President has tried. He is expected to be seen rather than heard. He plays host to foreign notables, receives ambassadors, launches ships, opens hospitals, unveils war monuments, throws parties for poor children, meddles not at all in politics. He gets $47,700 salary a year, an equal amount for expenses, has the Elysée Palace as a Paris home...
...dwellers, and when the Hughes-Halletts first moved to Detroit, Mrs. Hughes-Hallett had a hard time getting enough pets. She solved the problem by calling up the Police Department and requesting that any snakes they found be turned over to her. Commented indulgent Husband Leslie: "Once it was rather difficult for Violet to get snakes, but now they are arriving in carload lots...
...Gandhi's prestige, having been vastly enhanced by his victorious fast (TIME, March 13) against Rajkot's ruler, which ended last week with a glass of orange juice, the Congress Working Committee voted 218-10-133 to follow the Mahatma's moderate program in the future, rather than Bose's radical one, in their fight for Indian nationalism. President Bose promptly retired to the hospital with a temperature...
...Pontiff had received in audience the German Ambassador to the Vatican. He had also received the four German Cardinals in what was described as a "conference" rather than an audience. This gave the impression that Pius XII was seeking a rapprochement with Germany. Then the new Pope appointed his Secretary of State and the impression was overturned. His choice was a man distasteful to the Fascist nations: Luigi Cardinal Maglione...