Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...equal in prominence the famous sporting club in London. The site of this new International Sporting Club, as it will be called, has been selected in New York, on Lexington Avenue between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. The principal use of the club will be to stage the biggest boxing bouts that can be secured for the United States...
...first football game between Harvard and Yale was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875, and was won by Harvard by four goals to none. About 150 Harvard students journeyed from Cambridge to witness the contest, and were commented on as "the biggest crowd from Boston ever seen in New Haven." Mr. Parke H. Davis in his book on football gives account of the game, from which a few excerpts are printed here...
...between Harvard, Yale, and Columbia would offer a new field of competition for the members of these three universities. What better rival of a Yale game could there be than an Intercollegiate Air Derby ending at Soldiers Field or the Yale Bowl? It would be without question nearly the biggest event of the college year...
...team came through its biggest test of the year unscathed and so is in the best of condition for Pennsylvania. Both university ends, Cogswell and Myers, upon whom great reliance is placed, are back in their old positions today...
Three hundred men at the mass meeting; twenty-four hundred in College. One man in eight was there; where were the other seven? Sipping tea, perhaps, or discussing art, or practicing the latest fox-trot. But every single one of these aesthetic souls missed the biggest thrill in a lifetime when they failed to appear at the Union last night...