Word: earliest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conflict started last century when the advances of science prompted agnostics to declare that it could supersede religion. Result was a rapidly increasing secularization of both men and nations, a trend which Conference Member F. Ernest Johnson of Columbia last week summed up in two points: 1) "from the earliest times until the modern era man's religion has been inseparable from his daily affairs and related to every phase of his life, and our age has made a sharp break with the past in this respect"; 2) "this secularization has occurred during the period that has witnessed...
...fifth attempt succeeded. Reason: the U. S. Navy. After scared Congressmen began appropriating for a two-ocean fleet this summer, Secretary Frank Knox wrote Philadelphia's supercautious Mayor Robert Eneas Lamberton: "The Navy is desirous of having Cramp's reopened at the earliest possible time." With every other U. S. ocean shipyard strained to practical capacity, the idleness of Cramp's six ways, huge gantries, echoing shops and foundries could not continue...
Probably the earliest reference to whistling arrows credits their use to a Hsiung Nu, Mongolian prince, Maotun (200 B.C.), who used them to train his followers to loyalty. Whenever he shot his screamer at something, attendants were to follow up, shoot to kill. Those who hesitated were executed. Methodically working up from his favorite horse to his favorite concubine, he finally aimed his plaything at his father, went on to found the powerful Hsiung Nu dynasty...
...Reader Lamale not count his shark nets before they are hatched. The air and sea fleets which the U. S. has ordered are not expected to exist until 1942 and 1944 at earliest...
Indian nationalists have a well-taken point: Why should we support Britain in its fight for freedom and democracy when we have neither here? For years Britain has put India's reasonable demands for dominion status off, "to be considered at the earliest possible time." When the war began, Britain declared India in, without asking India's wishes, and made vague promises of dominion status after the war. Indian nationalists, though naturally dissatisfied, showed-and still were showing last week-great restraint in not pressing Britain in the emergency. It was expected that Lord Linlithgow's statement...