Word: actually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious to her surroundings and it was possible to approach sufficiently near to take pictures...
When Speaker Longworth resumed his chair, there was no roll call on H. J. Res. 133, only a rising vote. With his gavel handle the Speaker went through the motions of counting while a sharp-eyed clerk took the actual tally, whispered the result up to him for announcements: 282 to 17. Tax reduction had been approved by the House four days after its introduction-a new record...
...Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...
...tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who sees that problem with clear eyes!" (no mean dig at James Ramsay MacDonald). "Mr. Hoover has pointed out that men under arms including actual reservists, in the world are almost 30,000,000, or 10,000,000 more numerous than before the War. Every time I, or anyone else, try to say what President Hoover has said, statistics carefully cooked by the League of Nations are hurled at our heads enumerating peace establishments, which...
...Shipping Board, in a letter to Georges Theunis of Belgium. President of International Chamber of Commerce, pointed the path to everlasting peace. Said he: "If the leaders of the great industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned...