Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been imploring the Secretary of the Navy to have the tanks filled. And, for a year, the Secretary of the Navy had replied that they could not be filled except by Mr. Doheny and that (so counsel advised him) he dared not traffic further with Mr. Doheny lest such trafficking prejudice the Government's civil and criminal suits against the oil lord...
...importance of the position is mainly ceremonial and, for all practical purposes, a Minister of an important power would outrank an Ambassador of some wayward state; but, lest there should be any misunderstanding, the Ministers relegated the importance of the Dean's office to purely ceremonial affairs. The grouping of the Powers at Peking makes such a step necessary; for, in questions affecting nations which have not recognized the Dean's Government, it would be impossible for him to represent the Diplomatic Corps as a body...
...strangest hulks shipwright ever fashioned stood in the Camden, N. J., ways: It was about to be loosed into the water.* Lest it should race across the estuary and smash into Philadelphia, a gigantic cable was stretched across the water off the New Jersey shore. Twenty airplanes careened lazily from side to side, high in air above the hulk, as if welcoming a foster-mother...
...could be more painful to the management than that non-settlement of this peccadillo, this bagatelle, this merest nothing, should prey upon your conscience. We assure you, therefore, it is absolutely payable immediately. A check for this drollery will close your most desirable account, and we insist on this lest its postponement give you anxiety. Solicitously yours...
...above all Harvard men seem to be judges of beauty. Though they devour College Humor, and know Captain Billy by heart, with the magazines of pictures their interest is keenest. At one store, at lest, the American Art Student and Art and life sell as fast as the Saturday Evening Post...