Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dollars. On the Pacific littoral, that astute, thin-bearded Scotsman, Robert ("Robbie") Dollar, working these last few years through his able son, R. Stanley Dollar, has jibbed and tacked shipping so skillfully that transpacific commerce moves under his virtual control. Some 30 months ago he bought seven "President" steamers from the U. S. Shipping Board. The Board was glad to sell. At the same time the Dollars (as the Admiral-Oriental Line) were operating for the Board five other "President" boats from Seattle to Japan, China, the Philippines and return, and the competitive Pacific Mail Steamship Co. was operating five...
...News in its 1927 Board platform advocated "Support to the Harvard CRIMSON project for a reduction of the public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...public's virtual control" of the game is sinister and perniclous not the game itself. We would protest against the American professors' plan as sincerely as we do against the Harvard program. Both go to the vitals of football to save the sport-crazy public from losing its sense of balance. The only people to worry about in this regard are the men who are in the minority: the players themselves. These can be saved their equilibrium if the college don't deity the Red Granges and if they keep down the hours of practice which deter men from their...
Successively "Reza Kahn," as he called himself, terrorized the Persian Majlis (Parliament) into accepting him as Minister of War (1921) and Premier (1923). He then became virtual Dictator and forced the Majlis to entrust him with "the office and rank of Shah." (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925.) Last week his star stood at its zenith...
...further established himself as a vigorous enforcer by sending to Congress a prepared statement promising virtual extinction of present liquor supply if the $3,000,000 additional requests by President Coolidge were granted. And he outlined plans for a border patrol of 12 000 men to keep out Canadian liquor...