Word: tiniest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clustered in the 500-seat auditorium of Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce, 150 well-dressed, solemn delegates met one day last week in the 14th annual convention of the tiniest national group in U. S. finance: the National Negro Bankers' Association. Through the day they listened to many a solemn paper on subjects that the august American Bankers Association might have scheduled: profitable use of FHA mortgages, handling of bond accounts, ways of boosting depressed bank earnings...
...remote so that he has come to accept himself as a Messiah. So surrounded is he by adoring millions that his occasional megalomaniac outbursts have become more frequent. He is more autocratic and noncommittal than ever even to his old party leaders. He will tolerate disagreement only on the tiniest of details. His deep guffaws are more frightening than ever to adults, although children still respond to them...
Weston's passionately perfected technique for getting sharp definition in distant as well as foreground objects once inspired the "F.64" Group-a club of California photographers sworn to experiment with that tiniest aperture of the diaphragm. For exacting selfdiscipline, Weston is still unique. He never takes duplicate negatives, never "crops" or trims a print to improve his composition...
Able U. S. correspondent on the field in the final Leftist assault on Teruel last week was the New York Tiniest much favored Herbert L. Matthews (once awarded a cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian...
...least a League game ticket to Reader Fant. Myril Hoag wears, not size 3½shoes as TIME reported, but size 4 on his right foot, size 4½ on his left. Hoag is 5 ft. 10½in. tall, weighs 175 lb., is famed for his feet, tiniest in the major leagues...