Word: merest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. A glance at these questions reveals that man knows less of making peace than anything else. The merest numskull can shout a war cry, fire a blunderbuss. The language of peace, seldom heard, must be studied and conned over before disarmament can even be discussed...
...Irwin succeeds as Viceroy the former Lord Chief Justice of England, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, son of the late Joseph Isaacs, a merchant in the city of London. Lord Reading is perhaps the classic example cited to prove that ability and application suffice to catapult the merest of commoners to the heights in this 20th Century...
Briefly, the Brazilians so flagrantly defied the European powers and the Latin American nations, that the merest dullard asked: "With what power or powers is Brazil secretly in cahoots? With the Germans? With the French? With Italy, since Mussolini is notoriously anti-League...
...flood France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18). Premier Bethlen slipped into the Parliament building by a side entrance. For two hours he held last minute conferences with the leaders of the Opposition in the lobbies -cajoled, threatened, begged. It became obvious to the merest dullard that the Government found itself indeed most severely compromised by the discovery of the plot through the activities of French detectives, and the arrest of 70 persons including the chief of police of Budapest. Finally Count Bethlen succeeded in getting the Opposition leaders to promise that they would restrain...
...merest guess proves correct, Congress made a grievous miscalculation...