Word: direst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convince Adolf Hitler that this time Britain means business, that when it signed a treaty last April to assist Poland in case of aggression it meant it. Even British cartoonists, like Middleton of the Birmingham Gazette, complained that the Nazis would pay no attention even to the direst warning a British statesman could give. Führer Hitler and his coterie obviously did not believe a word of it, and there were even non-Nazis who shared the Führer's skepticism. It was all very well to talk of determination to obstruct "aggression," "attack." "force," "domination...
...score only has the University an objection within the realm of objective reason. By the wording of the eligibility clause, which rules out all students not in the direst sort of need, Harvard must take the responsibility of deciding when such need exists. Conceivably, she might be asked to defend a decision before the national government. But surely adequate machinery exists; Harvard's scholarship committee, under Russell T. Sharpe, is organized in exemplary fashion. And decisions correctly made can be defended before any tribunal...
...sonnet: This man was King in England's direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful...
...China now is in the direst danger. The militarists of Tokyo will take advantage of the opportunity to advance farther into North China...
...March 6 nearly a billion dollars in gold had flowed back to the Treasury but some $700,000,000 was still in hiding. Some of this had fled abroad; some of it had been lost: much of it was in the hands of well-to-do citizens from whom direst threats of prosecution could not blast it loose. Their position had able supporters. Senator Glass did not think the Government had the legal authority to force a citizen to give up his lawfully acquired property. Senator Borah had openly declared: "If I had $5,000 in gold I would defy...