Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what most observers believe to be the most significant act of legislation this year, virtual repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill was enacted yesterday when, by the narrow vote of 111-102, the Massachusetts House of Representatives accepted the report of the Committee on Education which recommended that the raw be erased from the ledgers...
...have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet- whereas under the Japanese Constitution the exalted positions of the Cabinet Ministers, especially those of the War Minister and Navy Minister, give them direct access to the Emperor, making them virtual equals of the Premier. Smart Sato simply let it be known that he will not operate in an exalted vacuum. When he sits down to elaborate Japanese foreign policy, he will take counsel with War Minister General Gen Sugiyama and Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai as often as possible...
...Crockett, Calif., David Locke was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for chaining his nine-year-old daughter to a bed, flaying her with a belt and hurling knife at her because she was "a virtual maniac...
...tireless efforts of Judge William Moore, Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid and William Bateman ("Tin Plate") Leeds, over nine-tenths of the country's entire can business. But by the time the trustbusters of Roosevelt I got to work on it, American Can had already destroyed its virtual monopoly by its dizzying prices. Competitors had swarmed in under the "Tin Can Trust's" big price umbrella, capitalized on the wrath of the canners. One of the competitors, Continental Can, was founded by an old American Can man who set his son up in the business, thus getting around...
...over his fellow Princes. In the secrecy of their courts and councils last week India's ruling Princes tensely and suspiciously watched the Indian elections. Strongest figure on the princely stage was the Nizam of Hyderabad's trusty Sir Akbar Hydari, firm demanding of the British Raj virtual amendment of the new Constitution by insertion in the Act of Accession, presenting for the signature of His Exalted Highness and other native rulers, such ultrasafe clauses as: "Nothing in this instrument affects the continuance of my Sovereignty in and over this State...