Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Krenek's opera are sure to be unsettled for a long time; but this very difference of opinion and the debatable questions inspired by it give pungency to every performance of works in the new manner. The old has played to nearly empty houses; the new has at least regained interest...
...arrangements recently effected with the Y. M. C. A. now put a wide rango of athletic opportunity before these men and only lassitude can explain negligence on the part of upperclassmen. Not even this loophole is allowed Freshmen for they are required to take some form of exercise at least twice a week. The apparent paternalism on the part of the authorities is easily excusable in view of the novelty of a scheme involving a dovetailing of a graduate school and the Y. M. C. A. Such gentle urging as may be included in a two-a-week requirement will...
Many questioning patrons of Widener. Library will be made glad by the remarks quoted in this issue of the CRIMSON in regard to the mural decorations of the main stairway. Few Harvard men are able to avoid at least a weekly head-on exposure of these paintings and many of them are daily made to speculate upon the meaning concealed in the curiously flat expanse of paint that overlooks the turn of the stair. The more energetic and intellectually curious of its observers have no doubt many times been driven to enrolment in courses in the fine arts...
...this picture tells of the return of two soldiers, one married and one unmarried, and how the unmarried one gets home first and goes up the winding stairs to the door which the wife of the other opens for him, you would think of "Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern truth, or guess the force...
Before blaming the young men, it is necessary to consider what had preceded their inquisitive prodding. They were members of an organization which has long been considered among the most befuddled and the least efficient in the U. S., a customs inspecting squad whose special duty it is to prevent the smuggling of diamonds. How unsuccessful this organization has been may be understood from the complaints of reputable jewelers. Pointing out that they must pay 20% duty on cut diamonds and 10% duty on uncut ones, they show that disreputable jewelers, who buy from smugglers, can undersell them with...