Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib...
Yet when General von Galgotzy finally retired for old age a few years ago, the same Archduke, Leopold Ferdinand von Habsburg* wrote:
Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter...
How succulent the flesh of unborn animals is, few civilized people know.* Civilized sentiment obscurely associated with motherhood generally forbids its eating. U. S. Government regulations have codified that sentiment by prohibiting the marketing of unborn cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent...
This appeared perilously near truth. As Minister of Unemployment. "Privy Seal Jim" can point to few achievements. Last week he parried 15 specific questions in the House as to what if anything he is doing to find work for Britain's 1,295,000 unemployed, with the statement: "I am...