Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Population. "Farm population . . . smallest in 20 years. . . . In 1928 a net movement of 598,000 from farms to cities...
With one of the smallest, lightest, and fastest basketball teams it has put on the court in recent years, Harvard outplayed the Boston University quintet to win by a 44 to 24 score in the Hemenway Gymnasium last night...
...Department of Romance Languages has the smallest number of candidates for honors among those with more than ten concentrators. Only 50 men 24.3 percent of the total of 206 have been approved while Fine Arts having 29 out of 117 or but 24.8 percent in a close second
...smallest tax upon President Cutter's shrewdness has been the necessity, increasing year by year, of impressing upon sensitive Central Americans that the great U. F. C., industrially dominant, is also the personal and political friend of each and every Latin American republic. Accordingly, last January, he wrote and published Foreign Trade's Golden Rule, explaining the essential economic unity of U. F. C. and the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, last week, he was vexed to find a rift in at least one of U. F. C.'s golden unities...
During Mrs. Willebrandt's tenure of office, the Prohibition & Taxation division of the Department of Justice grew from the smallest to the largest. President Hoover contemplates making it even larger by adding to its prosecution of dry cases the major job, now performed by the Treasury, of actual field enforcement of the Volstead Act. Lately the President set his friend, John L. McNab, to plotting out a system whereby this transfer and consolidation within the Department of Justice may be effected (TIME, Oct. 14). If and when such a plan becomes operative, Mr. Youngquist will...