Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme, first, to finance the pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Iron Guards (which, incidentally, listed her as No. 1 to be assassinated) only later to get them jailed. A word with this combination Mme Pompadour and Rasputin would do wonders, it was said, and an invitation to her house was tantamount to a royal summons...
...above connection, I am assuming the correctness of my understanding to the effect that one's presence upon any ship is tantamount to being upon the actual soil of the country which it represents. Consequently the gravity of the violation...
...derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln had been half the man Lem Schofield was, it is plain that the U. S. would never...
...London last week was staged what was tantamount to a preview of the Olympic Games to be held in Helsinki next summer. At White City Stadium 95 hand-picked track & field stars representing 16 nations competed in the British A. A. A.'s annual international track meet. Before 60,000 onlookers, the U. S. team of ten won eight of the 14 events, broke two British records (440-yd. hurdles and shot put), piled up 54 points-13 more than Great Britain, 29 more than Germany, 38 more than Italy...
...answer the point with an investigation which is not yet completed. The American Institute of Accountants, chief C.P.A. professional association, also launched an investigation. Last week it issued its report, tantamount to an order to all Institute Accountants from now on. Its chief decision: that good auditing procedure calls for actual corroboration of inventories by physical tests, heretofore usually done only on specific request by the company...