Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposals. Even the most rugged American individual could hardly desire a complete isolation from foreign culture, but he is in the habit of desiring adequate representation for his ideas. The recent developments in the administration of Lowell House seem to indicate that such representation is, in the case at least, assured...
...discount could perhaps be given for buying such coupons issued in booklet form, and the plan would also be advantageous to the H. A. A. in handling funds. To the conscientious student who, at the beginning of the season promises himself to play squash at least three times a week, such a system would be of great convenience, as well as an added bulwark against the temptation to break the pledge, that comes with December hours, theses, and too much Vagabonding...
...welter of questions to be settled on the banks of the Charles, not the least is the problem of the number of meals to be eaten in the houses and the charge to be imposed. The Harvard CRIMSON views the change which the University will make for meals as "contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference." And elsewhere a former Harvard man expresses the opinion that the charge per week virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must...
...bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think...
They got out, shook hands with the pilot, were addressed by Walter Beech, president of Curtiss-Wright Sales Corp., professed themselves satisfactorily air-minded. Curtiss-Wright proposed to take up at least 500 executives during the winter to familiarize them with air travel, make potential customers for passenger air services...