Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight crossed the finish line a third of a length in the lead, 1922 and 1923 following closely in the order named. The class crews were also given a long work-out on Saturday, the practice being varied with occasional half-mile brushes which resulted in a virtual draw among the four boats...
...immense significance of the Conference as a factor in future world peace is, according to Mr. Libby, well illustrated in the virtual settlement of our past difficulties with Japan, and the dissipation of that ominous war-cloud which for many years has hung between the two nations. "I didn't realize the magnitude of the achievements of the Washington Conference", he went on to say, "until the next to the last session when I heard Mr. Hughes present the request of the American delegation to Japan. A new understanding has come between the two nations. We don't want...
...larger work than its present resources permit. Anybody who reads the annual reports of the heads of the Harvard departments is struck by the number that speak of the limitations under which they are struggling on account of lack of funds. The Endowment Fund saved the University from virtual bankruptcy and enabled it to set a scale of salaries for the teaching force which is among the highest in the country and which may be considered not unsatisfactory: but as Harvard grows, so do its needs, and despite the generosity of the graduates, those needs are still legion...
...least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces of fiction included in this issue because of the dexterity with which it is used. Mr. Behn produces the virtual effect of dialect, in his "Translation from the Navajo", by a well arranged introduction of Indian words and by an imitation, in the direct discourse, of Indian simplicity of speech. But why does Mr. Morrison, in "Leaves and Fishes", cause his interlocutor suddenly to perform the impossible feat of abandoning...
Seldom, if ever, has the general attitude of the nations been more propitious for permanent disarmament. No such argument, however, will ever prove effective unless all the contracting parties are sincerely in favor of it. The failure of even one important state to cooperate means the virtual negation of all the efforts of the rest. Fortunately, at the coming Conference there will be represented but one country which might be thought to favor disarmament half-heartedly or not at all. That country is Japan...