Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciate highly the great honor. . . . I will accept . . . as soon as my public obligations already assumed have been discharged. . . . I will be a candidate in the Republican primary. . . . I will give my best to State and Nation...
...limitation of Philippine sugar imports]. He has also learned that the plans of the General Staff provide that in case of war any attempt to keep a traffic lane open between the Philippines and the U. S. would be promptly abandoned. . . . We plan to use this information . . . to the best advantage...
...Best hater of Stresemann was Clemenceau. Last week Clemenceau was thumb-nailed by the only woman except his daughters to whom he left money (100,000 frs: $3,930), his stenographer, Mme. Pernoud...
...Best Plays in Manhattan...
...possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...