Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object was to give every Deputy a chance to speak for at least half a day on the budget clauses particularly interesting to his constituents. It was a grand old system-forensics in the reverberant pork barrel...
Four hundred million Chinamen seemed to be wrong last week, or at least totally incapable of setting right the affairs of their country...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...Corbusier battle cry is Order; without it tomorrow's metropolises will be but romantic jumbles as are contemporary London, New York and all Continental cities. According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery. Obstacles will be man's persistent following of the least resistance line, his respect for the past. As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly. His projected city has a concentrated business district in the centre...
...ride to covertside alone. "Keep at least a hundred feet behind him; then if a hound is emptying itself, you won't be so likely to override...