Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been exceptionally pleased with your paper in school work and intend to use at least 150 copies next year. The children are always eager to get the paper and study it through from cover to cover with far more enthusiasm than they ever did some of the older current event papers...
...embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence ? If I should place my faith in this deity, why wouldn't it be just as logical to place my faith in Santa Claus as well? In fact the latter gentleman ought to command more respect, as he at least shows some signs of life when Christmas gets around. In that respect the children show more signs of intelligence than their elders. They believe in St. Nick and at least have something to show for their beliefs, while what can their elders show for their belief in His Celestial Majesty...
John Carter [TIME, May 9] is not a reporter, but the assistant editor of the [New York] Sunday Times Book Review. He is a contributor to various magazines as well as to the Forum, and his weekly critical articles in the Times make him at least as well known as any other writer of open letters. He has been in the American Diplomatic Service, he has written a book on international politics, and he specialized in history at Yale, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student...
...Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
...opening day of I. C. A. A. A. A. competition on Franklin Field yesterday afternoon saw a large number of upsets in the expected results of the qualifying trials. Harvard got only four men into the finals which will be staged this afternoon and at least two of these had not even been counted in the running in the pre-meet dope...