Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent a retreat from becoming a rout, a recession from developing into a panic. In addition to the banks already mentioned, the banking pool was described as including George F. Baker's First National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship of George F. Baker was the most valuable asset that he or his father had ever known. Mr. Baker, fast approaching his goth birthday, had known Panic before Morgan Partner Lament was born. Compared to Morgan-Baker efforts of the past, however, the 1929 crisis was notable...
Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...
...blame because the Tariff Battle did not move along more briskly. Republican Generalissimo Reed Smoot cried to his cohorts that it was "preposterous" to hold them at fault and that Freebooter Borah was "more than unfair" in so charging. Brigadier Borah thereupon crossed the lines to remark: "Senator Smoot is overworked and perhaps feels irritable. . . . No man in his calmer moments could have supposed that such a bill could have passed without a prolonged fight...
...Eliot's classmate, Professor Adams Sherman Hill, who made the remark (attributed to another man) that the President had a sense of humor, but you 'couldn't count on it.' That he had it is made obvious by what I have already told. When it showed itself in words, his instinct for the close-fitting word was strikingly effective. Of a mean-looking poster inviting new students to the hospitality of a reception, he said, 'It has a very bleak appearance.' Of the magenta handkerchiefs bought for the crew in which he rowed, he said that, though they were...
...days ago one might have closed one's eyes in the Palmer Stadium and imagined oneself at a cricket match, were it not for the visitors' cheering section. It is not difficult to see what prompted the Amherst Student of October 7th to remark, "About 18,000 watched the start of the game, per custom more Lord Jeff supporters than Orange and Black...