Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dumbells, pulleys, and other machines of torture abound; exercise, "work", abounds. In the proposed building, the emphasis will have moved with the times. Work will yield to fun and recreation, exercise to competition. If Harvard men of the future lose their Hemenway acquired, Strongfertian muscular development, they may at least hope to replace it by better all-round condition and a sense of humor...
...Democracy," someone has said, "is a sublime fallacy." However that may be, this sublimity, in various aspects at least, is gradually suffusing the globe, until, in the not too far distant future, one may perhaps hope to see the whole world bathed in the refulgent, mellow glow of golden unanimity...
Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
...scarcely for the present generation to judge of the advantages which this community singing will have over the good old tradition of individual stars, but at least it will be safe to say that the job of the biographer will have added difficulties...
...School residents are further victimized. It seems that empty radiators have a tendency to transmit sound in an uncanny way and that many an innocent dweller on the fourth floor has been forced to listen in on first floor conversations which, if they do not startle him, are at least distracting. A typewriter creates havoc and it is rumored that radiators have here and there been loosened from the wall by the harangues prolonged into the small hours of the morning...