Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...
...fact that tutoring schools flourish at Harvard is indicative of a lack of "intellectual guts" among its undergraduates. A large percentage of the students have not the faintest interest in learning; they are much more concerned with acquiring "two C's and a D" as the tickets of admission to Harvard's extra-curriculum activities. Of course the blame for this attitude cannot all be laid at the doors of the tutoring schools--but they encourage...
Even if the contrary were true, it might furnish a motive for retaining the Sultan as a nominal religious head; but it would give not the faintest pretext for bolstering up his secular power. It is a great pity that the United States, by its rejection of the League, is in no position to take any active part in concert with the other powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over...