Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual fact would appear to be that we dare not buy the American ships lest we should depress exchange...
...same cause at any time in the last 20 years. Something froze Dzerzhinsky's soul in his youth- perhaps too early and too long imprisonment-and he became imbued with the prodigious soulless energy of a machine. While imprisoned in Poland and later in Siberia, he begged permission, lest inaction drive him mad, to empty daily all his fellow prisoners' latrines. Like a famished tiger, he thirsted for the revolutionary works of Marx, but (naturally) his gaolers were adamant on that point, though obliging in the matter of latrines...
Late in the week, Parisian merchants, terrified lest "Les Amér- icains" and their gold be frightened from Paris, began an anti-anti- American campaign through the press. The situation eased perceptibly with the return of the franc to 40 on the advent of M. Poincaré's Ministry...
...lure the 1,000,000 striking British coal miners back to work by making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage they ask, providing they will work an extra hour. Last week A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation, became so fearful lest this strategy succeed that he threatened to order on strike even the "safety pump men" who prevent by their work irreparable damage to the coal mines which would result from unchecked flooding...
Liberal Premier King kept his Cabinet going on the slenderest of majorities until his defeat by one ballot and resignation a fortnight ago. (TIME, July 5.) Last week Conservative leader Arthur Meighen stepped confidently into the Premiership. Within 72 hours he, too, suffered defeat. Lest this teetering and tottering continue indefinitely, Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy promptly dissolved the Canadian House of Commons...