Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroes, Lee, Jackson, Davis and their men, on the awesome bluff of Stone Mountain, Ga. The dismissal of famed and fiery Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the engaging of Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman ushered in a period of vacillation and chaotic nagging which left the project at a virtual standstill (TIME...
...administrator. In September, 1920, Government administration ended, and American Railway Express continued as an operating company whose stock was jointly held by Adams Express and American Express. American Railway Express then arranged contracts with almost every U. S. railroad (notable exception-the Southern Railroad, municipally owned) and acquired a virtual monopoly (95%,) of U. S. expressing. The contracts with the railroads included an option by which the railroads could purchase American Railway Express. These options expire Feb. 28, 1929. Last December the railroads, through a committee headed by President Storey of the Santa Fe, acquired control of American Railway Express...
...pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat, at the sacrificial altar. Goat moaned, girl bleated; and when finally the goat was killed it was the girl that cried out in death agony...
Plantation rubber from the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East broke Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather...
...that the letter-men have been determined and insignia awarded, marking the virtual close of the football season, athletics have again been forcibly subordinated in the daily papers to the more important topics of current events. Once more Mr. Hoover and the stock market have received due prominence on the front page; and the gestures of the Fascistic are no longer overshadowed by startling gridiron predictions. On the other hand, this is a period of unwarranted speculation on the part of sports writers. To fill their depicted columns, they fabricate grotesque stories of judicious phenomena; pictures of superhuman undertakings receive...