Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specific recommendations included in the current Council report call for "definite preference" to Junior and Senior applicants (already adopted); virtual guarantee of admission to all Dean's List Freshmen; stricter adherence to an "intellectual cross-section"; leniency toward men applying in groups; reduction of the number of graduate students...
Professor Hoffmann's virtual monopoly of German news photography has made him one of his country's richest men. He sells more than a million Hitler portraits a year. His Hitler pictures range from miniatures to 8-by-12-foot posters which sell for 1,050 marks ($420). For ordinary newspictures his standard price to German publications is 20 to 25 marks, but U. S. rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend...
...More important were the Mehrer's "treaties." One with Lithuania made that country increasingly a Nazi economic domain. And an unprecedented economic agreement with Rumania, signed under a virtual threat of invasion, gave the Reich almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...France Premier Edouard Daladier, discarding protests as mere "words, words, words," went before Parliament and obtained dictatorial powers to permit him to act secretly and promptly to forestall any further Nazi or Fascist moves. He was expected to put France on a virtual wartime footing, to call up extra men to the colors, to speed arms production. The French toyed with the idea of building up a strong Eastern European entente of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...edges of the leaf two rows of slender spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands on the upper surface . . . come into action until all the soft parts of the prey are liquefied...