Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Hoover may well be nominated because people admire his unquestioned ability, integrity, services. They know he has made the least of the Government's departments into one of the three greatest, at the same time doing much of the headwork for the rest of the Cabinet during two administrations. His popularity tends to transcend partisan politics, from which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material...
Strangely enough, although M. Bratiano heads an intensely militant oligarchy of land owners and industrialists-although he dominates the police and the army-there was a possibility that he might resign, or at least so reorganize his cabinet as to give the peasants a voice in the government, which they have not had for decades...
...reference is to the man who used to carry messages from Prof. Hurlbut to such students at Harvard as were in the bad books of the administrative forces. I have not the least doubt that Terry would remember my name and class as well. It was his boast that he forgot the face of no one who ever matriculated at the university. The trouble is that Terry remembers far too much. He knows, I feel certain, my mark in French was A. and when I went on probation and why. In fact, I would not put it above his marvelous...
...safely supposed that the next step in education is logically the official recognition of the gap. This conclusion is based upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level, it is only necessary to point to the inroads of athletics, outside activities, society, and perhaps an apathetic attitude which in some cases keeps...
...passes two acts flowing about in crinolines. The plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...