Word: virtualization
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...robust Victorian sense, when more than 1,000 of the 1,400 Margate Conference delegates leaped to their feet brandishing agenda papers like swords and shouted in unison: "What we have we hold! We hold! WE HOLD!" This Tory spectacle came just before the Conference voted with virtual unanimity the strongest possible resolution demanding that the Government inform Germany that the question of returning any British territory to the Reich "is not a discussible question...
...brandishers at Margate it also appeared radical that His Majesty's Government, who know perfectly well that the House of Lords may be emasculated or swept away once a Labor Cabinet with a big majority gets in, have done nothing to block such a development. Again by virtual unanimity last week the Margate Conference resolutioned in favor of "reforms" calculated to deprive the House of Commons or any other authority of ability ever to abolish the House of Lords...
Nothing could have better suited Portugal's virtual Dictator, sagacious Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. who with Catholic industry has been transhipping arms across Portugal to the White forces of Spain in their war against a Madrid Cabinet all of whose members are to the Holy Father sinners against Mother Church. Announced the Premier: "The Portuguese Government will recognize the Portuguese Legion as a political organization of volunteers destined to organize moral and social resistance against enemies of the Republic and of public order...
...this week they were not alone. Increasingly irked by the shells which have whistled from Government ships around the Rock of Gibraltar, the British Government decreed that no more fighting would be permitted in Gibraltar Harbor, backed up this decree with a virtual blockade of the portal. Squarely between the Pillars of Hercules H. M. S. Queen Elizabeth dropped anchor, fingered the water with searchlights. Effect of this move was to block the Loyalist battleships from attacking Algeciras and Morocco, both firmly in Rebel clutches...
...woman of 29. She never went to college, but, after high school, graduated from a teacher training institution (normal school). The 163 U. S. normal schools and teachers' colleges, many of which came into being during the teacher shortage of a generation ago, still hold a virtual monopoly of elementary schoolteaching jobs, since most State Boards of Education so frame their course and credit requirements that many ordinary college graduates are promptly disqualified. That the normal school subsists on a realm of privileged technical training is the belief of many a U. S. educational observer. Last week Professor Benjamin...