Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
Some London wag nailed a horseshoe last week to the door of the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain. Hitherto deadlocked, the Committee was soon lucky in reaching virtual unanimity on the British scheme to secure "substantial" withdrawal of volunteers fighting on both sides in Spain, then accord full belligerent rights to both Leftists and Rightists (TIME, Nov. 1). "There is not a single member of the committee who does not accept [The Scheme], excepting Russia," announced Viscount Cranborne, an acting chairman. "Yet I think it may be that even Russia tomorrow may see her way to accept...
...more long-range significance was Big Steel's other announcement last week- a complete shuffling of officers, the virtual completion of Chairman Myron C. Taylor's ten-year program of reshaping Big Steel. Chairman Taylor, who looked more like an Episcopal bishop than a steelmaster, was an eminently successful lawyer when he became a U. S. Steel director in 1925. Seven years later he succeeded J. P. Morgan as chairman. Head of the finance committee in 1927, he had by 1929 retired most of Big Steel's funded debt, thereby reducing fixed charges some...
...were by this time weighing on my own conscience-the use of terror as a technique of government, the suppression and punishment of heretical opinion within the ranks of devoted communists, the persecution of scientists and scholars, the distortion of history to fit new policies, systematic forced labor, the virtual enslavement of workers and peasants in the name of socialism. ... I was depressed by the feeling of a magnificent opportunity frittered away...
Long a sore point with New Yorkers has been Newark's virtual monopoly as the terminal of the Metropolitan district's passenger, mail & commercial air traffic. No New Yorker has had so long or so sharp a knife out for Newark as New York's flying...