Word: merely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invaders. This land, wooded and boulder-studded, was a natural anti-tank defense, to which the Finns had added long lines of jagged, diamond-shaped boulders, three deep, as their main lines of defense against tanks. Above the narrow roads other huge boulders had been poised, so that the mere cutting of a cord sent them hurtling into the road. Concrete pillboxes, sunk into the earth and covered with sod, guarded all main avenues of passage. In the thick fir forests hid the Finns themselves, trained since childhood to use their knives as cleverly as an Alabama Negro uses...
...their 1940 president Phi Beta Kappa Prentis of Armstrong Cork. Said he: Businessmen "must recognize their historical mission as preservers of human liberty . . . eliminate unethical practices in their own enterprises ... be keenly conscious of the social significance of their day-by-day decisions ... be industrial statesmen rather than mere businessmen...
Died. Princess Louise, 91, Duchess of Argyll, great-aunt of King George VI, daughter of Queen Victoria, known as the "Royal Rebel" for her interest in art and for marrying a mere Marquis, later raised to Dukedom (first English Princess in 350 years to marry outside royalty); after long illness; in London...
Farm of Three Echoes (by Noel Langley; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings in association with Arthur Hopkins). After a great success as a 101-year-old matriarch in Whiteoaks, Ethel Barrymore returned to Broadway last week as a mere chick of 97. At 97, of course, people can do a great many things that would be unseemly at 101, and Actress Barrymore proceeds to do them...
Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears...