Word: merest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, any estimate based on these figures as to how nearly the postal receipts will balance expenditures for the current year is the merest guess. But the figures quoted would indicate a deficit of something like $40,000,000, which is due, of course, to the legislation passed by the last Congress affecting both pay and rates...
...through our files, we chanced to read your name in connection with a triviality of $900. The discovery was amazing, a sheer piece of luck, which we wish you to share. Nothing 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...
...outweighs all other considerations put together. And if he cannot detect in himself a real desire to concentrate anywhere, then let him searchingly examine his heart and see if toward some one of our many departments he cannot persuade himself to feel a dislike which, if only by the merest shade, is less than the dislike that he feels toward all the others
...meetings have taken place without exciting more than a ripple of interest from the Press. These traditional institutions from which many of the most important principles of the Constitution have been drawn, functioning regularly, efficiently, on schedule, and with the usual encouraging and even inspiring results, attracted only the merest mention in the daily papers...
...survey of the arena, and the hero steps jauntily towards his victim. He arranges his muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty death-charge, to strike home lightning-wise between the shoulders, step aside...