Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read while she's flying around doing a dozen other things, none of them easy. I know nuns and their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly in the right. Sometimes Catholics are too ready to take offence where not the slightest offence is intended. Perhaps Catholics get that way from having stood for more than their share of unjust abuse. I know I hit the ceiling this week when I learned that every single one of my mountaineer parishioners and even myself received a copy of a nasty, ornery anti-Catholic sheet. But when...
There was but the slightest quiver in the Eastern part of Sicily one day last week. The silvery olive trees rustled for a moment although there was no wind. By the eastern coast, the Mediterranean waters gulped uneasily...
Four months from the day Alfred Emanuel Smith is inaugurated President, if he is inaugurated, practically every industry in the U. S. will close its doors and absolutely cease functioning. Of the truth of this sweeping prediction, often made by Republicans, there cannot be the slightest doubt...
During a trial flight of the Count Zeppelin the Blau gas was alternated repeatedly with the ordinary mixture of benzol and gasoline without causing the slightest trouble to the new type Maybach motors, the first time in the history of aerial navigation that a gas had been used as fuel. "Our passengers," said Dr. Eckener, "did not even know that we had been running on gas until I told them...
...guessed and fought. What could not have been guessed was a 300-word statement from John Jacob Raskob, which came like a knife-thrust in the market's back. With Arthur Cutten, and the Brothers Fisher, Mr. Raskob has stood in the front rank of the bulls. His slightest intimations have lifted stocks nearly 40 points. His name, linked with the Du Pont interests, has been synonymous with a mysterious but potent pool operating in market leaders. Amazing, almost traitorous, appeared this statement, released on the very day the 5,400 bankers were preparing their formal edict...