Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Neither the hope for peace nor the desire for war should blind us. A new crisis means an increased danger. The slightest blow on hammered rock will cause that rock to break, and how near America is to breaking only those at the head of it may know...
...come over one. They are small floating islands of joy which the child laughs at and seeks to capture. In life at college one may also find numerous sun circles. A person with a real smile makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole assemblage to laugh violently. The earnest person needs many sun circles flashed into his make-up to keep him human and with a true perspective. An occasional joke or smile or other evidence...
...music reminds one strongly of "High Jinks"--so strongly, in fact, that one is tempted to hint at plagiarism. But this is rather to the credit of "You're in Love" than otherwise. The only twains that have the slightest chance of becoming "popular" are "You're in Love" and "Loveland." These are easily above the average of most musical comedies, but they will hardly stand comparison beside--"Very Good Eddie for example...
...university has the slightest doubt about the ability of the football team; the feeling is campus-wide that the men composing the eleven can compete successfully with either Harvard or Yale. It is not solely because it is a Princeton team that members of this university have confidence in it; it is largely by reason of the absolute conviction that the team this year is decidedly above the average in ability and that it can use its strength and show to the football world that it deserves to receive first honors this season...
...done. We must go back a step. In your columns I have noticed that discussions of student voting generally assume that the student from a distant state has no interest in the local affairs of Cambridge and Massachusetts. Why so? On the slightest consideration it will appear that this is not true. Many of us are here for seven years or more; a great many more for four years, a period as long as millions of citizens spend in one town, because of the varying demands of the labor market and shifting business conditions. Men of Cambridge, we are interested...