Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Known for years as one of the most liberal members of the Science Department, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, yesterday brought to a close in Geology 1 the first phase of an experiment which, if successful, may lead to the virtual elimination of the much protested laboratory routine in elementary science courses...
...present plan, practically speaking, proposes to eliminate injunctions against the T.V.A., even though Alabama Power Co. stockholders, for example, realize that T.V.A. invasion of the power field will mean virtual sequestration of their property. At present it is usually too expensive for small groups of vitally interested individuals to engage in a long legal battle with the government. To make it practically impossible, several of our "public servants" are vigorously pushing a bill to require the posting of bonds. The small man would thus have to mortgage everything he had to file a bond with astronomical figures...
...Committee that he had "sold every share of stock" in any bank before taking office. After last week's revelations it seemed fair to assume that obliging Brother Richard, who evidently considered himself merely a trustee, had also delicately declined to infringe on the voting rights of the virtual, if not legal, owner of the stock...
Even in these days, the idea of a capital levy sends cold shivers down the backs of conservative Congressmen. Huey Long's plan still shocks the majority of our people, even in the depths of the depression, and Congressmen know it. All the more remarkable, then, that a virtual capital levy has been passed through their midst without any realization of its significance. No one saw that the capital gains tax takes this form during an inflationary period...
Last June a politician's coup made Bulgaria a virtual dictatorship under the leadership of one-eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is neither Right nor Left, but STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE" (TIME, June 4). First reports were that this Gueorguieff dictatorship had the full approval of Little Tsar Boris. But royalists in Austria and Hungary, trying hard to recoup their own fortunes through the restoration of downy-lipped Archduke Otto, learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff...