Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked Mr. Wei to suggest to them what these demands should be and the Dean naturally asked them what they wanted. Their reply was that they wanted nothing. "This is not just an isolated case; I could cite numerous others. The general mass of Chinese students, as yet at least, are unaffected by Bolshevism, and anti-foreignism amongst the Chinese people is the exception rather than the rule. "I turned over the chair of mathematics at Boone to a Chinese gentleman who is a graduate of Columbia. He furthermore took a postgraduate course at Princeton. He is anti-Bolshevik...
...Byrne has accomplished the seemingly impossible--he has entered into the spirit of the times and of Saul, later to become St. Paul, with an extraordinary depth and keenness of penetration; he has vivified his subject without vulgarizing it. Indeed not the least remarkable thing about the book is the gallery of living portraits which the author paints; paints with such clearness, diversity and power that they seem actual breathing, human beings. In "Brother Saul," he has added to the charming lightness of touch and haunting melody of his style a certain strength, a subtle power that throws a brilliant...
...buildings, but in some of the designs there are also figures of men and women and the dress of the latter has been tire most conclusive element in fixing the date of the relics around the middle of the last century. The heard gear of the women, is at least as late as that of the forties while the absence of that of the forties while the absence of hoop skirts shows that the period could not have been much later...
...students who spend at least two months of the coming summer in some industrial or agricultural work, "The Nation" announces a prize essay contest, the winner of which is to receive $100. A second prize of $50 and third and fourth prizes of $25 and $15 respectively are also offered...
Stoking coal on an ocean steamship has commonly been regarded as one of the least attractive of all occupations--the sword that hangs over the head of stowa ways who are caught, the last resort of those who are bent on working their way to Europe by any means. The English girls who, bored on her passage to America, asked permission to work the full length of the voyage as a stoker, has set a precedent, not the least amazing feature of which is that her request was granted. Dressed in overalls, she wielded the shovel for nine days...