Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had no homeland of their own. After Allenby's last crusade had wrested Palestine from the Turk, the Balfour Declaration (1917) seemed to recognize Jewish rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing bad feeling culminated in August with the Arab anti-Jewish riots in Palestine. Last week Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, Chancellor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, sought to pour more...
...their convention in Pittsburgh last week when Manhattan's Dr. James F. Cooper urged them to "have children by choice, not by chance." fMrs. Sanger, Chairman of the Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, was busy at Columbus, Ohio, last week, arguing for permissive Ohio laws, at least for the canceling of inhibitive laws...
...almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2) along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is in the first zone, California and Japan in the second. Eastern North America, along the Appalachian chain goes through a noticeable, but usually harmless quake at least once a year, and a damaging one at about five year intervals. The probable cause of last week's quake, according to Arthur Keith, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Geology and Geography, is counter pressure. When glaciers and icecaps a mile thick covered eastern...
...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...
...Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband, to have a baby. The first two ambitions she easily achieves...