Word: bested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Chicago's Republican Tribune: "If Mrs. Hoover's Southern tea party has driven the Southern fanatics away from union with Northern fanatics, it has been the best use of tea since the night it was thrown into Boston Harbor...
Bishop Cannon's first Kable & Co. venture was an investment of $2,500 in August 1927. His judgment in general was proved sound although at one time he owed the firm $91,000. His best day was April 10, 1928, when he sold $75,078 worth of stock, purchased $58,353. In more than 30 transactions, he was a loser only six times...
...noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last week he and the Pilgrims had one of the most notable banquets of their career...
...theme is: what method of procedure is best adapted to translate the policy of naval reduction into a fixed agreement between the nations...
...Among our sculptors who is the one that best represents today the art of the old Institut, the abominable firehouse art? Assuredly M. Moreau-Vauthier. He has perhaps had his hour. It is past...