Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, it be admitted that by "most economical" is meant that plan which will cost U. S. and British taxpayers the least total sum, the U. S. proposals seemed to fulfill that claim. They consistently envisioned both a smaller number of ships and a lower total tonnage than the British proposals...
...most economical in taxpayer's money, 2) the least threatening to the peace of the world...
...offer the consecrated wine to the boy king as he knelt before the altar, Michael said simply: "I don't drink wine in the morning." The priest assured the royal youngster that holy wine was not the same as other wine and that he must take at least a sip if he wanted to be a good boy and receive the blessing. After looking over at his mother, who wore an expression of mingled pain and amusement, Michael finally took the sacrament...
...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...being a physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended at least eight such cases in the past three months. I make my living from my work and am not a professional philanthropist. Therefore my services should be paid for. Yet not one of the eight whom I have attended has responded to my request for the payment...