Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prewar days it did so to some extent. President Lowell's idea of the intellectual exchange over the dinner table was an admirable ideal but has not worked in practice. I have known students in the Houses who eat together religiously, not because they had the slightest thing in common (which was evidenced by their conversation) but because they happened by mere chance to be thrown together as roommates and, knowing no one else, formed themselves into a little group of fellow sufferers. On rare occasion I have seen these same people in contact with their real intellectual confreres...
...studios that knuckle under to the slightest pressure from any of many varied religious, political, business, or other groups, thus selling freedom of expression down the river, deserve the patronage and support of the, as yet, free people of the United States? STANLEY ERLE BROWN Berkeley, Calif...
Said one participant later: "There is not the slightest shadow of a doubt in my mind that Eisenhower is running for President. There isn't any doubt either that he seized upon this occasion to register that impression with Pennsylvania political leaders...
...idea from the famed tank-gun stabilizer that he developed during the war. The stabilizer made it possible to fire a gun accurately from a speeding tank. Looking around for a peacetime use for his device, Hanna finally tinkered together a contraption with an extraordinary capacity for detecting the slightest...
...newspaper bitter words from a Mr. Priestley, who gained some acceptance in the war from the fact that we used him for broadcasting purposes. He has no influence. No American should allow himself to be irritated or offended by such diatribe. They do not represent in the slightest degree the feelings of the British nation, or, I may say, of His Majesty's Government...