Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Christian X, 76, King of Denmark (and until 1944, Iceland), the Wends and the Goths; of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. The beloved monarch, Europe's tallest (6 ft. 6 in.-"I know I am too long"), remained in his little country during the war, a virtual prisoner of the occupying Germans, with whom he was coldly, contemptuously uncooperative...
Despite the intense nature of the work, most of the current Astronomy majors maintain a certain stoic "we asked for it; now we're getting it" attitude. They have to. Concentration in Astronomy means long hours of lab work, virtual sacrifice of extensive extra-curricular activities...
...present the enrollment in the Department of the Classics is 47 students, representing a virtual return to the prewar figures. The abolition of the ancient language requirement for an A.B. has had no effect on the number of Classics students, nor on those non-concentrators enrolled in individual courses in the department...
...adamant French stand, confronting the Council with a virtual take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum, created what appears to be the worse split yet developed here among the western powers...
Then Henry Kaiser asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban the cut for Geneva. Last week, he got the help of two potent allies. Attorney General Tom C. Clark filed suit to keep Big Steel's Columbia from buying Consolidated on grounds that it would give Steel a virtual monopoly on West Coast steelmaking and fabricating. The RFC, worried about its huge investment in Fontana, also asked the ICC to hold up the Geneva reduction...