Word: whit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surrender the University into the prying, meddling hands of an ever changing legislature is in effect what Mr. Blanchard and his associates would accomplish. The fear that a University administration will make itself subservient to big business interests is not one whit as terrifying as the thought that the machinations of logrolling of a typical legislative body can finally be made to control the destinies of Harvard...
Last week the 16 club owners of the American and National Leagues assembled in conference. Thrice during one day the conference was postponed while attempts were made to effect compromises. But Judge Landis would evidently not abate his terms one whit and the club owners, not less for the good name of their business than for the necessity of upholding their organization, were obliged to support Mr. Landis...
...that the newspapers and magazines are run by human beings who very urgently resent any curtailment of their profits. The suggestions for raising second class postal rates have been generally confined to increases on the rates for advertising matter* on which publishers receive revenue; but the publishers are no whit appeased. Already, the press is crying aloud that it is abused, saying "the estimate of the second class deficit is too large" and "all other postal rates have been decreased since the War, but we still pay War rates." If the movement to increase second class rates becomes definite...
SENATOR LADD: "I have tried to represent the sentiment of the people of North Dakota. My conduct will not be changed one whit by any action by the Republican conference...
...that. He tells the story of his own life frankly and revealingly, just as honestly and just as skilfully as if he had never existed outside his own fertile imagination. He writes his novels as if they were biography. Now he makes of his own life a novel no whit inferior to those which have won him the right to a hearing...