Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five angry-eyed turkey gobblers (half as many as last year) arrived at the White House. The biggest, a 30-lb. creature from the North Platte Valley Co-operative Market Association of Nebraska, was elected, to rear its inverted bulk on the Presidential platter. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns of Boston were the only White House guests, so there was plenty for all.* Dinner was served in the evening after a day, more springlike than autumnal, during which President & Mrs. Coolidge sat in a box at Keith's Theatre and heard a sermon on "The Real Thanksgiving" by Rev. Jason...
Iron & steel giants of the U. S. groped towards mergers last week. Directors of the Trumbull Steel Co. and the Republic Iron & Steel Co. decided to consolidate; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. sold $75,000,000 of bonds through Kuhn, Loeb & Co. That was the biggest piece of industrial financing of the year...
...three years of football at Harvard was a jinx to Yale teams, commenting yesterday to the CRIMSON on today's game, said: "Harvard has shown on several occasions this fall that it has power. But it has not yet shown the sustained power that will be necessary in its biggest game, and whether it attains that power is a question that only the team can decide...
Twenty years ago the policeman would not have had to ask how to spell "Marceline." He would have been accustomed to seeing it in big shiny letters over the entrance to the Hippodrome, biggest Manhattan theatre. The little, inexpressive brown face with the smear of blood would have reminded him of another face, with the same features, set in a foolish pointed smile. He would have recognized the dusty, madly tailored evening clothes that Marceline had taken out of his trunk before he killed himself, as the uniform of the most famous clown since the days of Grimaldi...
...Managing director of Handley Page Ltd., British airplane firm. He described his invention as "the biggest thing in aviation since the patents of the Wright Brothers...