Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...overturn at Washington must be followed by the recall or resignation of the greater part of our Ambassadors. Statistics have been compiled showing that, with one exception, none of the diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great Britain and France filling similar positions had back of them an average record of twenty years, diplomatic experience...
...success to every Crimson graduate and undergraduate. But this year the eleven has dozen more than this. Meeting Yale without a single defeat against them and with their goal line crossed only once, Capt. Murray and his men outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...
...Neither the Harvard team nor the student body has the slightest justification for overconfidence," said Coach James Knox '93, concerning today's battle with the Tigers. Coach Knox is better fitted to make such an assertion than other members of the coaching staff, since he has followed the development of the Princeton eleven closely and has attended almost every one of its games. "Such overconfidence as they have at the present time," he continued, "probably owes its origin from the comparison of the Harvard and Princeton scores this season, particularly the victories of Colgate and West Virginia over the Tigers...
...with the fullest appreciation of what each and all of them have done for Harvard in the years gone by that we welcome the members of the fifty-seven classes of graduates who are here to celebrate the day. There is not the slightest need this year to hope that spreads and dinners will be a success, or that all will have a good time. No acute observer is needed to tell us that joy is in the air, that celebration is at the same high pitch as one any pre-war Class Day, and that both will reign triumphant...
...viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such scant faith is apparently placed by the High Command in the loyalty and integrity of the American soldier, that he is denied the right to hold the slightest communication with the conquered inhabitants of the area of occupation in Germany...