Word: worst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will cost America far more to neglect Turkey than to take the chance that is now offered to clean up the worst of the world's trouble breeders. We would need but few troops to quiet any disorder that might arise and the expense involved in the undertaking would be well repaid by the restoration of order, and by the profits that would accrue to American industry through the development of Turkey's resources...
...Dill, as the Poet, had a difficult part and in general he played it well. He was at his best in his soliloquy and at his worst in the conversation with Fame. Miss Jennison, as Fame, looked the part to perfection, and if her Cockney was somewhat variable, it was forgotten in contemplating the picture she made. Mr. Fawcett did the best bit of characterization in the piece. Only once did he over-act--at the moment when he says goodbye to the Poet...
Apart from our opinion on the merits of compulsory military training, and quite apart from any peculiar national or international conditions that make it now more or less desirable than before the War, it would be the worst sort of folly for the University to be identified with a movement for universal service. It seems to me obvious that this question is one about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption...
...times to enforce such legislation, the present is the worst. Army and navy demobilization has flooded the country with surplus labor. It will be two or three years at least before industry can settle down to normal conditions. To add to this economic unrest by increasing the number of the unemployed is the worst kind of statesmanship...
...gathering. Of course, the governments must bear the largest share of the blame for this newspaper lying, for their censorship's, established avowedly for the purpose of preventing military facts of value from falling into the hands of the enemy, speedily degenerated into deliberate suppression or deliberate propaganda. The worst offenders in this respect have been the English, but our own government in the person of the intolerant, arrogant, and incompetent Mr. Burleson has made a record that Americans would be heartily ashamed of if they knew...