Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It must not be thought, from these few examples, that the people who are sending and bringing these medicines and suggestions to the Palace are slightly unbalanced. Anything but. They are men and women who take the King's illness as a personal affliction and they honestly feel that their...
When asked "What's south of Mexico?" few U. S. citizens are smart enough to reply, "Guatemala." Last week, President Lazaro Chacon had to declare martial law, because one Col. Fernando Morales Jr. had suddenly fomented a revolt in Western Guatemala, and seized the city of Mazatenango.
In peaceful Sunbury Court at Sunbury on the Thames, England, 63 uniformed officers of the Salvation Army High Council squatted in the meeting-room, listening with silent approval-a few with speechless scorn-to the impassioned oratory of the vice president of the Council, Lieutenant Commissioner William Haines. His glumly...
The Rescue. Few scenarists have understood the literary methods of the late Joseph Conrad, or discovered until too late how his tales of adventure, seemingly straightforward enough, are complicated with struggles about something called honor. "Take out that honor, we can't have it in" exasperated directors declare at...
A few years ago a conflict between the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National would have seemed like a battle between the strong and the weak; the prosperous and the poverty-stricken, the lion and the lamb. President Edward Wentworth Beatty of the Canadian Pacific heads one of the world...