Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it was suggested that more data could be found on his life in Who's Who in which he is listed, the poet, who doesn't conform in the slightest to the usual pictures of a poet, laughingly said, "Not only that, but I can clean skates with my teeth...
...take up the case of Maryland before it was too late. To draw the sting from his opposition to conservative Democrats he permitted another direct quote explaining that he was acting on principle: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket, I would not have the slightest objection to his election. The good of the country rises above party." Then he sallied forth to Maryland to boost Representative David Lewis, on principle, against Senator Millard Tydings...
...Conductor Fritz Mahler had chosen young, cooperative U. S. singers, devoid of upstage ideas. Thus equipped they rehearsed their operatic scenes as a conductor rehearses a symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded for a standard production...
Science is burgeoning rapidly if somewhat unsteadily in the new land of the U. S. S. R. At the town of Yalta, in the Crimea, the Soviet Government has installed a seismograph station with sensitive instruments capable of recording the slightest tremors of the earth. Recently, the savants in charge have been nonplussed by a queer epidemic of quakes. One which agitated the instruments appeared to be in Angora, another in Asia, a third on the Adriatic coast. An extremely violent series of jiggles made the seismologists believe that a quake was occurring right there in Yalta. Oddly enough, however...
From Berlin, as the crisis-packed week came to a close, the Czechs indirectly received another reassurance. Adolf Hitler himself informed sources claimed, had sent anxious British Prime Minister Chamberlain the guarantee that Germany had not the slightest intention of marching into Czechoslovakia at this stage of the game...