Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term of office. Perhaps Governor Ferguson's apparent compassion for those so unfortunate as to have suffered the tyranny of the law is an expression of her true feeling; on the other hand it may be the result of her political method. Her attitude, however, has prompted at least one criminal court of Texas to suspend its criminal calendar until the expiration of Mrs. Ferguson's term, the eighteenth of this month. But whatever the motive, a governor who abuses the pardon power to the extent of forcing courts to withhold their convictions until the expiration...
...Executive Board of the class last night, the voting will be done on the preferential system. The postal card to be returaed will have the complete list of nominees on it. The voter is to number his choices in the order of his preference. The nominee who receives the least number of points will be elected. Complete direction will be given on the cards addressed to the voters...
...Imagine the feelings of a starving poet in his Greenwich Village garret, when he reads of this princely exploit. What books could he shower upon the world, had he only the power! He can comfort himself with the thought that the Nizam's works, at their present price at least, will probably not sell widely outside of Hyderabad...
...wrong" answers he other three first, "that it is peace-time conscription," second "the so-called optional drill is disguised compulsory drill and is really worse, because it is a subterfuge." Third "that it has the effect of a bureaucratic control in education." Now, no man who has the least knowledge of the real state of the world affairs today, can possibly be convinced, though he may perhaps be bewildered, by arguments like these, stated by Felix Cohen; because no man of common sense can live among his follow-creatures for a day without seeing innumerable facts which contradict...
...Freshman trek to lower Widener and the clatter of dishes across the Charles announce the success of two recent innovations. Seats both in the newly opened libraries in McKinlock and the dining halls of the Business School are already at a premium. This is not in the least surprising as both projects were designed with a careful eye to the convenient and the aesthetic. Studying Freshmen are consoled by handsome woodwork, pots of geranium, and a spacious alcove with a fireplace. The business men's professional fatigue is more than soothed by the arts of the former culinary overlord...