Word: aught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished Ambassador Schurman to say that the Bremen's launching oration was pronounced by a mightier Man. A roar of welcome went up from 50,000 throats as He arrived, striding with ponderous tread, nodding gravely at the plaudits, a man too old and too great to receive aught but universal homage...
...loud and doleful need the cries no longer be. For pause but a moment to think: Was there aught in all the lectures of this half year that merited as much as mention in an exam? J. Pendergast Elliott...
...truly lived as aught we live...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...
Those of the throng who knew aught of motors and who were able to push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...