Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churchgoers of Tiomne do not belong to Russia's Greek Orthodox Church. They are "Johnists," followers of John Kronstadsky, an obscure ecstatic whose chief tenet was that life is intolerable in this worst of all possible worlds, and that the coming of the Soviet was God's punishment for the sins of this world...
...obvious, moreover, that the murals do perpetuate the feeling aroused in the heat of the fast war, and I should think that it would be a very high consideration for those fortunate people who are supposed to hold aloof from the worst phases of mob passion, to do everything possible to banish every trace of such an attitude in the interest of the future of mankind...
Pansy, a Negro revue, lasted just three hissful performances. Said Dramacritic J. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: ''Purely for purposes of historical record let this bema announce that the worst show of all time was . . . produced . . . last evening...
...typhoid death last year. In 1927 there were seven such zero cities. One of them, Yonkers. has had no deaths from typhoid during four separate years. Another, Tacoma, last year had no diphtheria death, a remarkable effect of good public health administration. And Tacoma in 1927 had been the worst typhoid city of its northwest district. Memphis and Nashville have their distinction in the typhoid record. They had the worst rates per 100,000 population in the U. S.-15 for Nashville. 11.6 for Memphis.† Nearly as bad were El Paso (10.2) and Oklahoma City...
...Memphis also has the worst U. S. murder rate, 60.5 per 100,000 (TIME, March...