Word: wee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unemployment and the tendency to dump foreign goods in the only free market of the world, it is likely that the Conservatives would be doomed to defeat were it not for the peculiar political situation. True, the National Liberals and those who were at one time dubbed as the "Wee Frees" have united in the persons of their leaders. But the great Labor party, the official opposition, remains out of the fold. "Divide et impera" have thought the Conservatives, and they have fitted their actions to their thoughts...
...average consumption per man, woman, and child per minute, day and year, will alone cause many gallons of ink to flow and many heads to nod in the wee small hours of the morning as this work goes breathlessly on. After these fundamentals have been touched on there will be endless startling revelations as to how many times those fifteen billion pieces of gum would encircle the globe if laid end to end, and how much the Salvation Army could get for the fifteen billion wrappers. Some especially gifted specialist will figure the horse power output of the jaws...
...except in a fresher sensation when he waked. Another unnoticed effect there was also. The quitting of Daylight Saving Time has put a period to the summer. No longer can one pretend merrily that 12 o'clock is mid-day nor gain spiritual merit by getting up in the wee sma' hours of the morning along with the rest of Nature's early birds...
...this kind and today they will bring all their forces to bear at the Conservative meeting to hold the party true to the Coalition. If they fail and the DieHards lead in a march back to stricter party lines, the Prime-Minister has the alternative of joining the "Wee Frees" or of forming a new central party of his Liberals and moderate Conservative friends...
Another suggestion I should like to make concerns the reason why laboring men show such adaptability to new methods of striking; of course, this is but a suggestion. The greatest reason is perhaps, the number of bright lads in the country who, as wee tots of seventeen, astonish their parents by anticipating English A; then breeze through college, dashing off keen editorials in which they use such big words as "Syndicalism", "exploitation", and "Johannesburg"; and finally fare forth in the world to enlighten the public through the editorial columns of your "New York Timeses", your "Chicago Tribunes", and your "Boston...