Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop's Big Red football team gained virtual possession of the House championship yesterday afternoon by toppling Dudley out of the undefeated ranks 13 to 0 while Lowell was scoring an upset in taking Kirkland...
...York Harbor, flag at half-mast for Cabin Boy Johnson, and while three uninjured members of the ship's band played The Sidewalks of New York, warped into her pier, where 18 ambulances waited, rushed 26 to hospitals. From her hold were removed 25 automobiles, most of them virtual wrecks, to be towed away...
...this sort would do little to solve the real problem. What is needed are men of the middle age-group, like the departing assistant professors, men who are prepared to teach and tutor. It is these who are called for, not "Name Professors" interested in graduate work to the virtual exclusion of all else...
...Straggler Bailey of North Carolina, Commerce Committee chairman, the neutrality bill's virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
Thus passed into virtual oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...