Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Travellers to the Orient via the Suez Canal are dazzled by the huge electric billboard which informs at least 200,000 persons yearly that they ought to buy Sir Thomas Lipton...
...TIME, Oct. 10), she learned how intolerable was the lot of some 600 antiFascists then exiled upon blistering, volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily. Acutely sensible of the sufferings of others, she was moved to intercede with the Signor Benito Mussolini. Soon it became known that some at least of the 600 exiles would be released. Last week a round, generous 300 were allowed to return to their homes. Among them were seven onetime deputies, two priests, numerous journalists...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
Genetics. President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan advised biological investigators to turn more and more from their habitual and comparatively easy study of insects to the study of mammals. There are, said he, at least five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination...
Taras Bulba is a striking proof that in Poland, at least, the manufacture of motion pictures is an infant industry. It contains, however, some good specimens of the medieval Cossacks...