Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...able to solve an oblique triangle than to understand the questions of financial policy which are agitating the whole country? Our colleges and schools are responsible for the prevailing ignorance of Political Economy. Harvard takes the lead by ceasing to require its "liberally educated" alumni to have the slightest knowledge of the most important science...
...same time my powers of conversation were utterly insufficient to induce them to talk intelligently upon any subject that I could think of, other than college matters. And, as a matter of course, they resented the slightest difference of opinion, or, if they happened to be particularly amiable, they mercifully attributed it to the senile idiocy incident to my advanced years...
Such are some of the fruits of my listening, and if they seem somewhat trivial, yet it must be considered that no very momentous results can be expected from such a purely passive kind of eavesdropping. I have not, as yet, discovered in any footfalls the slightest whisper of scandal. If one "hears no good of himself," he at least hears no evil...
...same date last year. There is but one explanation of this state of affairs. The novelty of club races has passed away, and any one who has watched the decline and fall of interests in college amusements other than boating will not be surprised. There is not the slightest doubt that we in college have some traits in common with the inhabitants of the nursery. We have an abundance of new toys, and we are always ready to discard our last plaything for a new one. It may be that this is caused partially by the necessity of shifting...
...hears the slightest sound...