Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sales were on a basis of 2¼% cash down, 2 2½% when the ships are transferred, the balance in seven and one-half years with interest at 4¼%, with guarantees by the buyers to operate the ships for at least five years...
...volunteers to sail for Tientsin with the 15th U. S. Infantry. Said the call: "Applicants . . . will face the most severe enlistment requirements the Army has ever set up. . . . Ex-service men must have been discharged with excellent character to be eligible. Volunteers without prior service must be at least 25 instead of the usual 18 years and of unusually fine character and physique...
Many a high-minded stalwart, feeling sure he could meet these specifications, quailed at one more requirement. To belong to the 15th U. S. Infantry, you must be able to speak at least 300 words in Chinese...
Pacific Coast line of seismicity, which extends at least 8,000 miles from the Arctic circle to Tehuantepec...
...cars, each painted, in large letters, with the name of that excellent hostelry, The Hotel Roosevelt, what would this be? It would be a publicity stunt. What would a hardboiled, wise, cynical, alert newspaper reporter think it was? He would think it was a front-page story. This, at least, was the opinion which intelligent persons were compelled to adopt after witnessing last week in Manhattan an example of journalistic susceptibility to unoriginal press-agenting...