Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, imperious president of the Reichsbank when he arrived. In the Fatherland, where such an assemblage represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
...Translated literally as Jonny Strikes Up, by the Metropolitan as Jonny Strikes Up the Band. Already, however, Manhattan knows it in briefest form as Jonny...
...seem to devote more than a proportionate amount of space to boosting the stock of Eastman Kodak Co., as witness your several lengthy stories of the phenomenal rise in the business world of George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest...
...Only the briefest reports from Massachusetts lookouts had told of the plane's earliest progress. The Dawn's regular radio set had evidently expired shortly after starting. The landing field at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, lay white with Christmas snow uncut by the Dawn's landing wheels...
...chief on the fourteenth of May that the insurrection in that troubled country was ended; and follows with a list of casualties since that date in the continued fighting between the Marines and the natives; fighting which however necessary, has been all but completely ignored except for the briefest of dispatches...