Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...
This last point may have its practical advantages. True, many thousands of dollars are spent every year in paying the admission to football games for those who have only the faintest notion of what the game means or how it is played. But in this very fact there is a danger. It may be that people will grow weary of paying good money to watch a show they do not comprehend. But horse racing is as old as civilization and promises to live to the end of time. It has a universal human appeal. It is more conservative...
...North Pole. Ice had broken off the submarine's diving fins. Nonetheless. Sir Hubert had water-filled her diving chambers, had nosed under vast cakes of ice. When she first scraped under, the hollow steel hull. Wilkins reported, "was a veritable drum or sound box with the faintest scratch of the ice sounding like the ripping of giant strips of calico. Heavy bumps set up tremors like the continuous shocks of earthquakes...
Clumsy but honest Theodore Dreiser, although he would not like to write himself down "as a total pessimist," and thinks Life "taken all in all, a fairly good show," has "not the faintest notion of what it is all about...
...Such opportunity the American Museum, on its 62nd birthday, offers in unparalleled measure?travel, exploration, research, adventure, laboratory or book work, but always work of the hardest kind. Only those on the inside can form the faintest idea of what 'Life's fighting line' in the American Museum means. First, it means keeping yourself in sound physical and mental condition which is impossible if you yield to dissipation; second, it means dogged persistence in the face of what appear to be insuperable difficulties; third, it means that you must deny yourself many of the thousand opportunities which surround...