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Word: fewest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump from an opinion to a conclusion without reasoning. 3) Consider carefully all possible solutions of the problem. 4) Accept the solution which has the largest number of advantages and the fewest disadvantages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dr. Reilly's Thoughts | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Fewest letters in a major sport went to Varsity track men, five of whom qualified; Howard A. Cook '37, Robert Haydock, Jr. '39, Winslow L. Pettingel '38, William H. Schmidt, 2nd '37, captain, and Charles W. Hubbard, 3rd '37, manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER AWARDS GIVEN 11-SCORE SPORTSMEN | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

According to the rules the prize will go to "the person cleaving the course (the face) in the fewest number of strokes without incurring too many of the stated penalties for chopping off an ear lobe, or without, in a pitch of enthusiasm, severing the entire head from his body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Be Represented In Chin Golf Championship | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

Plenty of pretty girls in the fewest possible clothes was the formula which made Fort Worth, Tex.'s Frontier Centennial Exposition a bang-up success last summer. As a final fillip, Producer-Manager Billy Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Bride of the Lion | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Among all the third-party candidates destined to be defeated and forgotten in next week's Presidential election, Socialist Laborite John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass. has the distinction of expecting the fewest votes from the U. S. electorate. Though it claims to be the oldest established radical party in the land and has had a ticket in every Presidential campaign since 1892, the Socialist Labor party polled only 33,276 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Chevrolet Campaign | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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