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Word: slightest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume he is a great Christian gentle man, prepared to doublecross his Italian and German friends without the slightest hesitation." The bewildered little man who frequently appears with the Colonel is the cartoonist's conception of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nuisance | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...those resolutions, they are not the expressions of "a hot, hard-shelled, bone-picking mood." Baptists are devoted to the principle of absolute separation of Church and State. Their protests arise from this devotion. I assure you that the protests were without the slightest disrespect for the Catholics, the Catholic Church, or the exalted Heads of that Church. . . . The protest was an expression of the Baptist conviction derived from the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by bitter experience that absolute separation of Church and State is indispensable, and that every beginning in the direction of connection of Church and State ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...rather dark victory. After all, watching some sleezy little minx whooping it up with only ten months to live is not exactly riotous entertainment, and when mixed with some funereal acting by George Brent and a new triple-threat Cleopatra named Geraldine Fitzgerald breaking into tears at the slightest provocation, the total effect becomes rather depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation after a three-hour Sanskrit exam may become a little embittered about the whole thing. But those who want to see acting in its very finest form, those who want to see a top-notch actress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Without the slightest desire to discuss the question of armaments, it seems appalling to think that the cost of a modern battleship would keep nearly 4,000,000 people "alive" for one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Contrary to common belief, waves do not reveal intelligence, or even what the subject has on his mind. When the patient was asked to think of the most obscene joke he know of, his brain waves showed not the slightest variations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Research Man Devises Brain-Wave Machine for Studying Fits | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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