Word: extremest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was no definite Cabinet news (see p. 9). Inauguration news, too, was sparse. The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had." At Tipton, Iowa, one John W. Reeder, 92, hoped that the ceremony would not be too simple. He had asked to be, and been promised that he might be official holder of the Hoover hat on March...
Professor Palmer bases his case upon the assumption that the four year college course which "aims at teaching nothing useful, and so by its presence in a society disposed to measure everything by material standards becomes a factor of extremest use" is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education. To him the growth of the Junior College will cause the college to drop its first two years, add two more at the upper end and gradually but inevitably transform itself into a professional school. He sees this process already going on at Johns Hopkins and at Stanford...
...taken a living in Nancepan, minute fishing and farming parish. He sets to work to startle the population into salvation, introducing the most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest blasphemy. Finally, he finds peace in the great Benedictine monasteries of Italy. Mr. Mackenzie's work is notable for spiritual vision...
...James's go, these here collected have it surprise. Though not the work of a youth they have the zest of a story teller just prodding in his stock, a spirit, however, which James maintained throughout his life. They are surprising in that they are told with the extremest clarity and simplicity of phrasing, and are in that way models for structure...