Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newton D. Baker, Wartime War Secretary, arose and said: "Almost ten years have gone by and we are beginning to see the real meaning and the precious fruit of the struggle. In the Old World, at least, men's minds are constructively working for peace. . . . Whether this or that nation joins or does not join them means more, no doubt, to some of us zealots than it really does in the long run to the cause...
...Criticism. U. S. businessmen in France have hitherto been trading on a 60% average tariff basis. All were convinced that the same arrangement would be carried on under the new law. Why, no one could say. But U. S. businessmen were solid and emphatic in declaring that the least the French could have done was to continue the old arrangement pending the conclusion of the projected commercial pact between the two countries...
...electricity, circulated by hot air at a pressure of more than 250,000 Ibs. to the square inch. That is about the pressure of the earth's rocky crust 30 miles down, a pressure under which the friction of rock layers sliding on one another generates at least 1,600° Fahr. Such a hole would produce 4,000 horsepower if only 20% efficient, making steam of any quantity of water piped down it. If such a bore were impracticable, two larger shafts, five miles deep, could be dug by laborers in heat proof, air-cooled suits, and connected...
When Henry Ford marketed his ten millionth flivver, a musician composed a symphonic poem to celebrate the event (TIME, April 25). Edward Phillips Oppenheim has now published his 100th novel,* and though not one of his creations has been a flivver, somebody should salute Mr. Oppenheim with at least a small trumpet...
Five years later, the boy sold a short story and at 20 his first novel came out. His father died and for a while Author Oppenheim had to manage the family leather business in Leicester. Thereafter and down to the present stretched 40 years of turning out at least two novels per annum...