Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darn many Smiths." Pleased was he that a painting of his ancestor, peering through dawn's early light, was unveiled in Fort McHenry by Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the tireless patriot who in 1931 helped make The Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as the actual national anthem. But so ill-pleased was he by the political overtones of an address by Presidential Aspirant Paul V. McNutt that he slipped quietly off the platform, went home before the celebrations were over...
...technical brilliance of war pictures in the new Illustrated. Its 32 pages show British anti-aircraft guns and planes waiting for German raiders, Britons scurrying into air-raid shelters, their children evacuating London while German armies overrun Poland. Most of Sir John Hammerton's scenes of actual war in progress came to him from the enemy's Ministry for Propaganda, by way of the neutral Netherlands and Scandinavia. He had no immediate plans for sending his own cameramen to the front...
...said this again, and again. "For the proper observance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" by way of minimizing it.) By that stroke he assumed many powers which would be his in actual war. Having done so, he may, among other things, legally...
...Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...butter of banks. Day before Hitler jumped Poland, U. S. Treasury 4¼s (1947-52) stood at the fantastic price of 119 20/32, Treasury 2¾s (1956-59) at 106, etc. Since the premiums commanded by these bonds have to be amortized out of interest the actual yield (to maturity) of these two issues...