Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairly weel ken't the day in the literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared in prent. The Faem o' the author o' "the gaping Ayrshire yokels" should gang thunnerin' doon the ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President o' Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was anither...
Observers who may have wondered where Senator Borah puts his mighty mane when he goes to bed, on the pillow or sticking out over the edge, learned at least one thing about his sleeping habits last week. When sleeping in a strange place, Senator Borah puts his pocketbook under his pillow...
...That, at least, is where he put it last week when he slept at a hotel in Lincoln, Neb. In the morning, the pocketbook was still there but Senator Borah's money, some $400, was gone. Gone too was some $300 which Senator Borah's secretary Sam Jones, had left in the pockets of his clothes. A just man, Senator Borah said: "I want it understood that we attach no responsibility for the loss to the State of Nebraska nor to the welcoming committee...
...Harvard, at least, the amateur spirit, in its crusading aspect, is not fiercely active. Where there is no driving force of a cause to be advanced, there must be a substitute to preserve the initiative. It may be that salaries for undergraduate executives might furnish this substitute. It is certain, at all events, that the placing of a job on a salary basis leads to a deeper sense of responsibility on the part of the incumbent...
...backfield is composed of Whisnant, quarterback; Ward and Spaulding, halfbacks; and Foard, fullback. All these men with the exception of Spaulding have had at least one year's experience in intercollegiate competition. The extreme lightness of the quartet is noteworthy. Whisnant is the smallest, weighing only 150 while the other three range between 162 and 166. It is particularly adapted to the wide open game which the invading Tarheels will spring upon Coach Horween's heavier cohorts in Saturday's encounter...