Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lone survivor of a bygone epoch, who by virtue of his character, repute and personal following maintains an exceptional autonomy under Hearst ownership. There are the Scripps-Howard papers, a notable chain of twenty-six dailies in large and medium-sized cities, where the central editorial control is the slightest, and the editor of each paper is the captain of his craft not only over the editorial and news columns but over the advertising columns as well. . . . Finally, there are the Baltimore Suns. . . . On the Baltimore Suns journalism is a profession, and an honorable and distinguished...
...observer recording the play of light on the mirrors will be able to detect the slightest variation in the velocity of the beams through the longer and the shorter legs of the rectangle. If no difference in the time of the rival beams is perceived it will be apparent that light is not affected by the earth's rotation; in other words, that the ether rotates with the earth...
...only limitation upon a right-thinking lawyer's independence is in the duty which he owes to his clients, once selected, to serve them without the slightest thought of the effect such a service may have upon his personal popularity or political fortunes. Any lawyer who surrenders this independence or shades this duty by trimming his professional counsel to fit the gusts of popular opinion, in my judgment, not only dishonors himself but disparages and degrades the great profession to which he should be proud to belong...
Lethargic encephalitis has not the slightest connection with African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis). The name is more appropriate to the former disease than to the latter. Sleep symptoms are not invariably characteristic of the African sickness, but they occur whenever the parasite localizes in the fluid of the spinal cord or in the brain. Since they are conspicuous when present, the disease got its popular name from them. Sleep is a marked and invariable symptom of encephalitis, ranging from a light slumber to a profound coma...
...infants, born of tubercular parents 18 months ago, given three doses of "BCG" at 48-hour intervals beginning within 24 hours of birth, left with their mothers to run the risk of infection, had yet shown the slightest sign of infection...