Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master plotter and at the same time he added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps...
March 9-General election in Monaco, world's smallest principality...
...Lamoille County, Vt., were discovered Hiram Bogue and his seven sons. The smallest Bogue was six and a half feet tall, the biggest Bogue was Max Bogue, seven feet, two inches...
...smallest reason why the State Department had permitted Minister Hart to travel by way of Russia was because he is the only trained newsman in the diplomatic corps, because his official reports constitute some of the most zestful reading matter coming into the State Department by official channels. Crippled in one leg, Minister Hart was appointed in 1925 by President Coolidge, who chose him from the corps of Washington correspondents where he represented Portland and Spokane papers. His reports of crudities in the Balkan capital kept his superiors in a state of giggly excitement, led to the construction...
...classes and the beginning of the examination period. Even one day would be of considerable assistance to those who are burdened with a number of examinations coming in rapid succession. Either this, or the first day of the period should be reserved for those courses which have the smallest attendance...