Word: jot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When distinguished Editor James Louis Garvin had well perused this charge, he wrote: "In the whole farrago, there is not one grain, not one atom, not one little jot nor tincture of truth. No such stipulation exists. The American gentleman concerned is incapable of suggesting any thing like it. The King's subject concerned [Editor Garvin] is known to be among the last men alive to whom such a stipulation could be safely breathed...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...
...decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired no jot or tittle by a general walkout. The company said that hundreds of white men had applied for the Brotherhood's jobs...
Calles' Attitude. If General Obregon has made overtures to the Holy See he has done so only after consultation with his good & close friend President Calles. Last week President Calles made it abundantly clear that his own position has altered by not one jot or tittle. Spoke to correspondents the President's halfbrother, Senor Arturo M. Elias, Mexican Consul-General in New York, suave, worldly and at times sarcastic...
...imploring mob of Harvard students filled the Union, chanting "Beat the Princetonian baseball team." To Coach Field's exhortation, in that moment when he silenced the pandemonium with an uplifted hand and said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it were superfluity to add a jot. Six thousand throats have bled themselves white cheering for the team so far this season. Twelve thousand feet have stamped in unison whenever an opposing pitcher showed the slightest tendency to waver. Harvard wants no flagging of this spirit...