Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gains brought by the official recognition of this virtual freedom would be primarily administrative in nature. Abandonment of all attempt to check the class attendance of men, in good standing would relieve. University Hall of a heavy clerical burden, and would also obviate the expense of the present monitorial system...
...that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism, he demanded a declaration from Mr. Hoover on the present wool tariff which, according to Mr. Hunneman, strikes manufacturers as a virtual embargo...
...Budapest the Hungarian Prime Minister and virtual dictator, Count Stephen Bethlen, was greeted when he entered the chamber last week by Opposition shouts of "grafter! . . . herder! . . . PIG!! . . . resign or we'll bring guns and use Skupshtina methods here...
...without any bloodshed whatever. The factors in this result were the great Treaty of Washington (1842), negotiated, as Daniel Web ster, Tyler's Secretary of State, declared, "from step to step and from day to day under the President's own immediate supervision and di rection," the virtual protectorate established over the Hawaiian Islands, the annexation of Texas which made possible the acquisition of California and New Mexico, and the opening of the Orient through the first treaty with China...
After prolonged debate the Chamber concurred in this view, voting 335 to 185 for the bill in its new form. If passed by the Senate, it will leave the Standard, Shell and Anglo-Persian oil firms in virtual dominance of the French market, though theoretically curbed by a new licensing commission with limited powers...