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Word: slightest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Chang chartered a tramp steamer and stepped aboard her at Dairen, with 250 hired soldiers of fortune including the "White Russian" General Ataman Seminov. Without the slightest hindrance from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad News | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...become grouped about certain aspects of college life. The word "football" brings to mind one set of images; the sight of a text book or the tolling of the chapel bell, another. As a general rule, the pictures made in his head do not correspond in more than the slightest degree to reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT, FANCY AND OPINION | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

With true official taciturnity, the high command of the force has refused to divulge the slightest detail of the plan of attack to be followed. There is a rumor, however, from reliable sources, to the effect that a number of the most robust and courageous policemen are to be organized as a "bean blower squad." Whether this unit will take up an in trenched position that will command the Gibson Terrace sector, or whether it will depend on speed and mobility for defense, and patrol the region, is as yet a matter of conjecture. One thing, however, is certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK YARD COPS | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

...beauty of Saturday's three-cornered competition is that the slightest flick of an elbow may upset the plans of any of the coaches. Cornell always comes to town as an unknown quantity; Dartmouth possesses potential power, but can't quite duplicate its Hanover performances on a foreign surface. It is easier to keep track of the form of Harvard's athletes than it is to follow the ups and downs of the boys who strive so diligently under Harry Hillman and Jack Moakley, and that's why the meet promises to have a stronger Crimson tinge than the "dope...

Author: By George C. Carens, | Title: GREEN VIES WITH CRIMSON FOR LEAD IN NEW FORECAST | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

What did that mean-Bessarabia? Oracle Litvinov did not explain. Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow. But whatever he meant, 'his words provoked no slightest frown or trace of annoyance on the smiling face of Carol A. Davila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinov's Protocol | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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