Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to decide between the Brothers Voight, Wisconsin voters were at least luckier than West Virginians. Wisconsin's Voights are easily distinguishable one from another, Charles's face being longer and plainer than handsome, smiling Edward's. West Virginia has two Sharp brothers in politics and they are identical twins. Summers H. Sharp, circuit judge at Marlinton, W. Va., often visits Charleston, the capital, where George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate...
...slated to held elections this year. The applications of candidates should be filed with the Secretary of a State Committee of Selection before October 20. The candidate may apply either in the state in which he resides or in the one in which he has received at least two years of his college education. It is essential that he be one of the men chosen to represent his institution in the competition. Harvard applicants, irrespective of their native states, should apply to President Lowell in writing before October 1 for selection as Harvard candidates...
...coveted of all undergraduate awards, entitles the holder to three years of study at Oxford University, with an annual stipend of *400. To be eligible a candidate must be an unmarried male citizen of the United States, between the ages of 19 and 25, and must have completed at least his Sophomore year in college before he goes to Oxford. Rhodes Scholars are elected without examination on the basis of their records in school and college, and no restriction is placed upon their choice of studies. Scholars elected on December 8, 1928, will go to Oxford in October...
...American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep sincerity which should have had the flag out and flying at least a week before and a week after the date, February 22. If loyalty really were in the hearts of Harvard men they would have walked bare-headed through the yard with the Battle Hymn of the Republic on their lips...
...Sovereigns, temporal or spiritual, the Pope is the least frequent borrower of money. His finances, like his spiritual power, are immeasurable,occult-defying the statistical art. They are also ancient. Aaron of Lincoln, twelfth Century genius of Jewish finance in England, is credited with the initiation of large scale Church financial policy. It was Blount & Cie., French bankers, who issued the last Vatican bond offering, in 1886, when Paris was the money-lending centre of the world. Last week it was the Protestant house of Halsey, Stuart† & Co., of Chicago and New York, who announced a forthcoming issue...