Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Judge." Wealthy Howard Smith ("Judge" to his cronies) has long campaigned against union labor as a monopoly. (For his Virginia dairymen he favors a virtual monopoly of the Washington milk market.) His name has appeared on no major legislation, but in 1938 he put through the House 17 amendments to the Wagner Labor Relations Act; the Senate killed them. Half a hundred times he has tried to tack amendments on appropriation bills to bar funds to anyone paying dues to organizations for the right to work. Always defeated but never ruffled, Judge Smith kept on trying. In late April...
...West Coast awareness of impending drama was something new: it took the place of virtual apathy. As late as last March, civilians shrugged off any preparation as a nuisance. When the returns came in from the Far Pacific, they began to buckle down. When Brigadier General James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo, they worked a little faster, got a little more tense. When War Secretary Stimson predicted Jap face-saving raids as a certainty, civilian volunteers began to hold nightly drills. The Coast went on a 24-hour alert...
Square-shouldered Painter Austin, 34, has earned his living as an advertising-layout man and a professional sparring partner, has exhibited his paintings in public only since 1938. Since then every one of his exhibitions has been a virtual sellout, and seven leading U.S. museums have added Austins to their permanent collections. His Europa and the Bull and Lady of the Windbell are shown on this page...
Conferences between the F.B.I. and Northwestern's President Snyder and other University officials resulted in a virtual ultimatum to the Daily to refrain from making any comment whatever in regard to the War; as an alternative it offered a faculty censor to blue-pencil every item slated to appear. The off-shoot was a farcical situation in which the Daily began living in a vacuum, apparently oblivious of such things as Defense Stamps, War Production Boards, Panzer Divisions, and Japanese...
...other and with the 1,100,000 graduates from vocational training programs for jobs. So acute was this problem of more liberally A.B.'d college men and fewer open-armed employers, that the liberal arts enrollment which had jumped 46 per cent between 1900 and 1930 came to a virtual standstill in 1940. After this war, the knowledge-seeking middle class will be even less able to support a long, expensive liberal education--especially when they can prepare their sons for specialized jobs on less money and in less time...