Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States would do a little toward enlivening their existence when they are on the other side of the world. Experience in the civil war demonstrated that homesickness is not a disorder belonging to the nursery age. Hundreds of strong men were so oppressed with it that the slightest indisposition often developed alarming symptoms, and the patient pined and died without any apparent cause. This was on our won soil when the war was but a few hours' ride from the home of the average soldier, and where the surroundings were civilized...
...there was cheering enough." True, but that cheering did not come at the right time. When the chances of the Harvard nine seemed to improve through the errors of the visiting team, the applause was of the loudest, but when the home nine were demoralized there was not the slightest effort to help them. We should be sorry to see a repetition of this on Thursday...
...keep more in touch with the plans of the day and be in a position to complain before the eleventh hour." It seems that the first would practically insure the second, for if some definite plan were recognized whenever it became necessary to depart from it in the slightest, special attention would be called...
...both the Monthly and CRIMSON, and in fact by every person, whether graduate or undergraduate, to whom I have mentioned the matter. It is one in which we are all of necessity interested, yet the authorities in charge have not thus far seen fit to vouchsafe us the slightest explanation. Much as the new building ought to prove a distinct addition to the beauty of the Yard, this is probably the last thing it is likely to be according to the general verdict. Would there not therefore, to put it mildly, seem to be sufficient cause for a reconsideration...
...friends of the University Club plan could make no greater mistake than to give even the slightest semblance of wishing to rush the scheme through. Nothing can be more important, even if the project is finally carried out, than that intelligent criticism be welcomed and given its full weight. The object of the meeting in the Fogg Museum tomorrow night, is not to carry any scheme through on a wave of popular enthusiasm. Mass meetings are often used for such purposes and it is doubtful whether in some cases they do not accomplish more harm than good...