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Word: actually (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Good added: "The inspector has concluded that criticism of the mess was warranted. . . . As to all other complaints the inspector has reached the conclusion that they are not justified by the actual facts. . . . The hospital is rendering a fine service to its patients. . . . I have brought the deficiencies of the mess to the attention of the commanding general of the hospital and have instructed him to remedy them at once. . . . I anticipate . . . an improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Poor Eggs, No Milk | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Toiling along, happy though hot, President Hoover last week derived immense personal satisfaction from one official act. He proclaimed effective the water-rights compact on the Colorado River, agreed to by six out of seven interested states.* The proclamation cleared away the last obstacle to actual construction of a giant dam on the Colorado near Boulder or Black Canyons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Dam | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...enterprises." Nominee Hylan hinted that the Marlow case would join the Rothstein case as another unsolved murder with a political tinge. Before the week was out, Commissioner Whalen had eight persons under arrest, six as material witnesses, two as oldtime criminals, caught in a "fortified" apartment, to whom the actual murder might be charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tammany Test | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Marshal Feng, war lord of Peiping (Peking) and the Northwestern Provinces, was on the verge of war with the Nationalist Government. Four hundred thousand troops were mobilized on either side. Haughty Marshal Feng sent scurrilous letters to President Chiang, and rallied his allies (TIME, June 3). Last week, before actual hostilities commenced, the "Christian General" suddenly capitulated, agreed to leave China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Commissioner'' Feng | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

More successful and profitable than attempts to create gold from mercury is the actual creation of electricity at Hartford, Conn. The Hartford Electric Light Co. has been using a mercury-vapor turbine to run its generators since 1923. That turbine was shut down while last week a second was prepared for operation. William Le Roy Emmet of General Electric Co. invented and developed the machines. General Electric built them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mercury into Power | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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