Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan...
Frank Baldwin Jewett, 49, is president of Bell Telephone Laboratories' 2,000 scientists and their 2,000 assistants. It is the biggest organization of its kind in the world. They invented permalloy and thereby quadrupled the amount of messages possible to send over cables. They made long distance and overseas telephony possible. They have saved the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Western Electric Co., for whom they work, millions of dollars, and helped the companies earn more millions...
...evening the Union will again demonstrate that it is not only a pool hall, an eating club, and an everyday club, but a really truly night club as well. The successful series of cabarets so far held in the Living Room terminates tonight in what promises to be the biggest whoopee of the season, for special effort has been made to obtain an unusually well known young lady for hostess. The management shows its usual good judgment and happy fortune by the selection of the Empress Josephine for the all important position. Not only does she add the touch...
...impression that Palo Alto went Hoover without opposition was erroneous. Town, and some gown, kept up a vigorous Smith campaign. Librarian Van Patten in charge of the voluminous Hoover War library, went to the non-partisan reception to home-coming Mr. Hoover, wearing the biggest Smith badge he could find...
...biggest passenger plane ever built in the U. S. last week flew up & down for demonstration flights at the Bristol, Pa., airport of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., its builders. It is a high wing monoplane with three Wright Cyclone 525 h.p. motors that can carry it and a 7½ ton load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...