Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substance of the recommendations which are expected to be made by the Committee is the virtual abolition of the individual student adviser and personal calls on every Freshman...
...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, 48, virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, is the General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness...
...full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
...Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort of thing that 'is not done'. It would be sensational...