Word: virtually
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voiceless student: his date's ticket last year was expensive, and this year is outrageous. All this, despite the total abolition of the Federal 20% amusement tax, which means that on a $3.60 ticket, this year the H.A.A. nets nearly 17% more per ticket. Now, not satisfied with a virtual 17% net increase, the H.A.A. has raised the same ticket to $4.00, thereby being charitable to themselves to the extent of $1.00 more per ticket, or a 25% increase...
...Vermont Consuelo Northrop Bailey, second woman to be speaker of a U.S. state legislature,* won the G.O.P. nomination and virtual certainty of becoming the nation's first lady lieutenant governor. Tireless Connie Bailey, 54, who first won office (state's attorney) in 1927, drove 23,000 miles to campaign, handily defeated two strong male opponents, former Governor Harold Arthur and Attorney General F. Elliott Barber...
...abortive EDC was knocked out before it started. NATO is basically, in the view of most of its members, a device to obtain an American guarantee of their borders, but if it were ever put to a military test, the virtual uselessness of most of its component elements would quickly be demonstrated. The ruin of United States foreign policy by the collapse of the EDC scheme should be a final demonstration that collective security is a myth. This is a lesson that needs to be learned by the government and people of the United States. It needs to be learned...
...members of the U.S. Senate refer to one another as gentlemen. But, what with the industrial revolution, the westering course of empire and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, the Senate has seen the virtual extinction of gentlemen in the 19th-century sense of the word. Most of the Senate's gentlemen (and there are some distinguished ones) were made, not born. One of the last Senators to be born an esquire, Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, died last week of a heart attack...
...French blunt enough to be understood throughout his empire, Napoleon Bonaparte raised Jacques-Louis David to the heights. The Emperor's "first painter" had tasted glory before: a tradesman's son, he took part in the French Revolution, happily sketched victims going to the guillotine and became virtual art dictator of the republic under Robespierre. After Robespierre's downfall, he spent seven months behind bars. In 1804, the year of Napoleon's decree, David was 56 and a bit tired of ups and downs. Still, the emperor could not have made' a better choice...