Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only 15.2 hands high, Battleship was one of the smallest horses ever...
...Wallace quota on any crop can only be imposed if a two-thirds majority of voting farmers favor it. Last week, 1,189,496 cotton farmers voted for, 97,456 against a quota. Biggest majority was South Carolina's (96%), smallest Oklahoma's (76%). Dark tobacco growers voted for a quota 38,209 to 8,746, flue-cured tobacco growers...
...reason of their religion Jewish farmers differ from most others. Although they engage in many forms of agriculture (but chiefly poultry and truck farming), they tend to live in groups; for Jewish dietary laws and ritual practices are hard to fulfill in isolation, and ten Jewish men is the smallest permissible group for public worship. With well developed commercial instincts many a Jewish farmer also takes in summer boarders...
Despite the appalling statistics which Surgeon General Thomas Parran has released for the country at large, venereal diseases at Harvard constitute the Hygiene Department's smallest worry. Less than five one-hundredths of one percent of the student body are annually afflicted with syphilis; and the figure for gonorrhea, more prevalent in this part of the country, is well under one percent. Contrary to an impression created this fall, the Hygiene Department has set up no special department to care for cases of this sort. They are handled in a routine way, the doctors making the diagnoses and offering...
Toys (Chihuahuas, Pekingese, Pomeranians, etc.). The smallest and fanciest dogs are the beloved fancy of the bulkiest fanciers. Bulkiest of all at Westminster was John B. Royce of Brookline. Mass., whose tiny, brilliant red homebred Pekingese bitch, Kai Lo of Dah Lyn, pitter-pattered to victory...