Word: jot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report from Jersey City was extremely premature and unreliable. Observers put not a jot of faith in it. But it quickened their notion that in the coming campaign as never before the Democrats will have to demonstrate that their ideals have hands and feet and that the G.O.P., whatever other trusts it shelters, has no monopoly of the country's brainpower...
Rear Admiral Magruder retracted no jot or tittle of his article but did say that certain "Sic 'Em Boys" (copy-starved newspaper correspondents) had ridiculously misrepresented his attitude when they reported him scowling and gesturing at news of Secretary Wilbur's alleged ire. Washington stirred in anticipation of another screed from him, soon to be published in the Saturday Evening Post...
...President's most important memorandums is: "Appoint a Governor-General of the Philippines, an Ambassador to Mexico, an Ambassador to Cuba." Last week his mind had to jot a postscript: "Item, a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board." Governor Daniel Richard Crissinger had tendered his resignation (See POLITICAL NOTES...
...curtain figuratively rises, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg stands up and moves a second reading. Correspondents note his erect, judicial poise, wonder how long he will keep cool under the barrage of jeers which Laborites will soon make hot. Racing pencils jot names of major characters and their more and more pungent speeches as the drama plays on and upward to crescendo...
...learned colleagues who might like to examine it. It was simply a codification of all the laws enacted between 1789 and last December by U. S. Congresses and had been prepared merely to establish physical evidence of the existence of the country's statutes, which it altered no jot or tittle...