Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaching and the advocating? The Government had put the finger on a number of small fry as the actual instructors. On the basis of the evidence so far, only a few of the eleven big fish on trial had actually labored in this vineyard. What the Government was trying to prove, however, was that all of the eleven, who comprised the U.S. Politburo, set the line, gave the orders, and made very sure that a far from innocent thing was being carried...
January 7. "I am the wretchedest of the wretched . . . Nobody will miss [Little Nell] like I shall ... Old wounds bleed afresh when I only think of the way of [killing her]; what the actual doing it will be, God knows...
...actual rowing style of Harvard crews goes, there is little these days to distinguish it from most competitors. This is because most eastern colleges now employ coaches trained at the University of Washington, if not actual alumni, who have at least profited mightily from the so-called Conibear-Washington technique...
...from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped to the poop deck of the lobster boat that the HAA had thoughtfully hired, cleared his throat, and made the following announcement...
...teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed my stand, and it now is: No teacher should be refused a position or fired on the basis of his membership in any organization; but hiring or dismissal should be based solely on the basis of his individual competence as a teacher...