Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virtual king of this island, and its only white resident, was Sergeant Restitute Castilla of the Spanish Colonial Guards. Weeks ago the lordly Sergeant began great preparations to entertain the Governor General of all Spanish Guinea. Island blacks were drilled in a wild, weird dance for His Excellency's edification. Came at last the great...
...institution already has an endowment of some $30,000,000. John Pierpont Morgan gave it $2,000,000. George Fisher Baker & his late father jointly gave an-other $2,000,000. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial also gave $2,000,000. But the largest donor and virtual creator of the medical centre was the late generous Payne Whitney. His gifts totaled some...
...began his career of incitation at 19, was at various times barred from the U. S. and South America, spent 12 years in prisons, was sentenced to death in Italy, Spain, Argentina. For the past ten years he had lived quietly in Rome; according to his friends, a virtual prisoner of Premier Mussolini...
...program: a moratorium to be followed by virtual cancellation of what Germany owes the Allies if the Allies obtain virtual cancellation of what they...
...audience; the suffering Turkmen in Turkestan are rescued from their Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman the Bey and his harem in luxury. But John Reed Turkman writes to the Reds, who come...