Word: merestly
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...make any gestures, madame," the auctioneer cautioned sharply. "We catch them all." In Paris' jammed Galerie Charpentier last week, 1,500 people watched breathlessly as the finest collection in years went under the hammer. The merest raising of a pencil could jump the price 100,000 francs. The first painting was Fragonard's The Dreamer, in five minutes it was sold for 3,100,000 francs (about $9,000). Then, one by one, 63 paintings and drawings and six sculptures from the Cognacq collection went to new owners. The sales total three hours later: 302 million francs, more...
...Only the merest traces of copper are normally found in the body, and not much has been known about what the copper does. Investigators from Salt Lake City offered a surprising answer: the copper is essential to proper use of iron; without it, animals (and probably humans, too) become anemic...
...doused them with sweet herbs against infection before she herself laid hand or lips to them. By last week, when Elizabeth II (in her first official public appearance since the funeral of her father) performed the traditional Maundy Thursday rites, the paupers' footwashing had been reduced to the merest symbolism: white linen aprons worn by her yeomen bodyguards. In the Abbey ceremony, however, the Queen followed faithfully the custom of her ancestors in distributing white purses of maundy money (26 pence worth of specially minted silver coins) to 26 men and 26 women (one for each year...
...play itself turns slackest toward the end: where there might be a more ominous light in the sky, a more urgent orchestration to the story, there are the merest stage doings about Sally's tweedy British mother. Though never dull, I Am a Camera suffers from too much of Sally's own live-in-the-moment disorder...
...team's pitching that counts, nor its speed on the bases, nor its home ran power. The team that wins the pennant is the team that wins the most games. Shallowness in the pitching staffs of both the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers is easy for the merest novice to detect. Both teams have weak spots in the batting order and in the defensive lineups. But both teams have won more games than other clubs in their leagues...