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Word: biggest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a trip, observers thought, would be of the very biggest empire service, since it would enable all Canadians to see what a very satisfactory sort of man lives at No. 10 Downing Street, London, and performs the great task which Britons proudly term "muddling through." Typical of friendly Canadian comment last week was an item boxed on the front page of the Toronto Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Empire Tour | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Thousands of them are in the line of flood waters . . . and they are proving our biggest problem; but we are going to save them whether they like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...result, as in the case of Author Halliburton's The Royal Road to Romance (around the world on $40), is the biggest kind of super-romantic money's worth that "self-satisfied people, caught in the ruts of convention and responsibility," can buy anywhere currently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Play-boy | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...almost unanimous choice made Jacob Slagle the best all-round athlete in the class, and Joseph Prendergast the best all-round man, the most respected, the most popular and the biggest politician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Is Voted Third Best Woman's College by Seniors at Princeton--Norma Shearer Is Feminine Film Favorite | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

...that the tickets for downstairs were printed: "Evening Dress Indispensable," for all that some of the country's biggest whiskey and oil peers and their wives were on full view, some found it a disappointing first night. Fine old names were missing from the box plates. The stalls were full of middle-class folk to whom opera was a social rite, not an entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In London | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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