Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these ten cruisers are merely a program, that he would approve nothing for present construction, that he does not wish to stir competitive navy building by the world powers. Thus, militant Congressmen and Navy officers are back in their original position, ready to fight for immediate appropriations for at least three cruisers...
Narcosan may be a cure for drug addiction. Commissioner Wallis said that it had been tested on 366 prisoners in the Correctional Hospital on Welfare Island. He said that narcosan cured them, at least temporarily. His report attracted considerable attention. Dr. Alexander Lambert and Dr. Frederick Tilney, famed Manhattan physicians, reported on narcosan in the New York Medical Journal and Record. They said that it had relieved , morphin, cocain, heroin, veronal and alcohol addiction, without causing delirium or intense suffering. Whether the treatment was permanent or not they said they did not know, could not guess...
...effect are simpler. In 24 hours the addicts were able to sleep normally. In 72 hours they stopped asking for drugs. Their appetite for food increased; they wanted food every minute, particularly sweet food. Their skin became firm; they showed no sign of nervousness; they were declared cured, at least temporarily. Only one came back, a Negress who yearned for languor. And what, doctors wondered, will narcosan do for the shadowy, secretive regiments of U. S. addicts to opium, to morphin, to cocain...
Their bland and persistent indifference to civil authority has given them, for 400 years, a checkered career. But they have always been good farmers, and many governments have made them, at least for a time, special concessions. Holland has always treated them well; there are 60,000 there. The German Mennonites fared less happily; many emigrated in 1786 to Russia, by invitation of Catherine II, who granted military exemption. This grant having been rescinded in 1870, large numbers of the faithful came to the U. S. (where a Germantown, Pa., colony existed as early as 1683), spread to Nebraska...
...week before Christmas and all through Detroit a great many creatures were stirring. That familiar figure, the man in the street, would have said that Detroit was "dead," "flat" or at least very quiet. But that would be because the Ford factories were shut down and production was at a low ebb in many another plant. Actually there was intense invisible activity-as in a huge household of which the important members had all shut themselves in their rooms to wrap up Christmas presents, cautiously guarding their keyholes against prying children (newspaper reporters) and fretting in secret over finishing touches...