Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven-bound whine of a 16-inch shell from one of the country's 32 biggest coast guns...
Harlan Fiske Stone, latest addition (1925) to the Supreme Court, is its youngest, biggest, strapping-strongest member. He is but 55, He was graduated by Amherst College the year before Calvin Coolidge, in 1894. For 14 years (1910-24) he was Columbia University's Dean of Law and spent eleven months, between quitting that post and taking his present one, at being U. S. Attorney General. There was a flurry before Mr. Associate Justice Stone's confirmation by the Senate over the fact that he once represented J. P. Morgan & Co., and a storm over the fact that...
...mining camps. There were, great behemoths, now in use to pull freight or passengers; G-3-d engines, the most powerful in use on the Canadian Pacific; the John B. Jervis, new Delaware & Hudson locomotive, using the new water-tube boiler system, weighing 314 tons, the King George V (biggest locomotive in the British Empire), sent down from Canada for the show...
Daniel Richard Crissinger had always been a Democrat, but now that a Republican "Stunner" was playing the biggest game of all, the least a "Chain Ganger" could do was change his politics for the time being. When "Stunner" Harding was elected President, he returned the guerdon of friendship, taking "Chain Ganger" Crissinger down to Washington to be Comptroller of the Currency...
Boarding the flagship Schleswig-Holstein, the President reviewed the biggest naval parade held since the War. Thirty-five ships with crews totaling 7,000 men, about two-thirds of the Reich's naval strength in ships* and half its strength in men, took part. At the end of his review President von Hindenburg sent a radio thanking all ranks for their work, praising their efficiency...