Word: direst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep...
...direst opponents of the McNary-Haugen Bill are opponents of all government-going-into-business schemes. The biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...
...absurd extreme. Once the Bible is accepted as the ultimate and sole source of absolute truth, this acceptance colors one's view of the whole universe. Evolution becomes an impossible theory, questions of monogamy are labelled as sinful, and speculations upon the nature of God are condemned as the direst sort of heresy. While the Bible will always play an important part in the life of mankind, when it is invoked to check suggestions of improvements in the social order..or used to hamper free comment upon the universe, it becomes a deadly reactionary and illiberal document...
...their hour of direst need, it is fortunate that a new "Marseillaise" is at hand, both music and words ready for instant use. But all things work together for good to them that serve the good cause. Printed in the November "American Mercury", thousands of copies will be broadcast. All the patriot needs do is catch the swing of the melody, and read the words over once. The spirit of it he already has. Then to enforce justice, all true patriots will march in a body to the immigration headquarters singing the new national anthem, the burden of which runs...
...denying the validity of the opposing arguments the University attempted to show that the abrogation of an international obligation is only warranted by the direst necessity, and such necessity in the present instance does not exist...