Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready material in case of war. For that future possibility it is paying the mail carriers a virtual subsidy as are foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return in the form of postage. In the U. S. the mock subsidy also averages $1 a flying mile. But 5? an ounce postage reduces Government expense to a mere $3,000,000 Post Office deficit...
...Babu,"* is the prompt response of Bengal Mohammedans. Last week Calcutta's Mohammedan quarter shook with Homeric laughter at the latest, greatest example of Babu vanity. Potent among Bengal market-gardeners is the wealthy Roy Mukerji Das, who employs 2,000 laborers in his truck gardens, holds a virtual monopoly of the Calcutta vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application to erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre...
...Prime Minister" had turned from friend to foe. For the most part Italian-speaking, individualistic, the Maltese have always leaned less toward the Britain that owns them than toward the Italy that is near them.* The Fascisti retaliate with friendship, bitterly realizing that possession of Malta gives Britain virtual command of the Mediterranean. Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order was issued which 1) Forbade circulation of any newspapers or pamphlets containing anti-British or anti-Strickland propaganda. 2) Imposed...
...chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation's research committee George Booker Waterhouse, M. I. T. professor of metallurgy...
...contest one of the smaller elements of the football day, or rather holiday. The question as to whether the football player or the serious onlooker will be disappointed will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely to emerge for a few years. And so the man who likes his football with a proper amount of preface and aftermath is still in style. Whether the overemphasis on the preface and the virtual elimination of the aftermath...