Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a tooth in the air, and 110,000 (the biggest crowd that ever saw a U. S. football game) in the stands, the Navy met the Army in Chicago. The Navy goat had a room and bath at the Drake hotel- but where was the mule? Running, passing, kicking, Midshipmen Caldwell, Hamilton, Schuber scored twice before the second period was over. Out ran Lighthorse Harry Wilson, Army back, bored to a touchdown; the Navy dropped a punt, the Army scored again, and while guns went off, cornets brayed, airplanes skipped, tanks gamboled, men in blue and men in grey...
...political Generalissimo of the Crown. Having sped to Manhattan, she motored up the Hudson to Tuxedo, and rested there, awaiting the sailing of the Berengaria, at the estate of Charles Edwin Mitchell, President of the National City Bank which, with more than $1,000,000,000 capital, is the biggest in the U. S. Royal Words. Prior to her departure Queen Marie was directly quoted as follows: "On this trip America has seen me. . . . Next time I want to see America. . . . "You of America seem perfectly healthy, perfectly efficient. But one can be that and still miss much. Poetry, religion...
...exact reproductions where wanted. This was done, and the advertisement appeared according to original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office. C. W. Barron is the head of his profession-financial journalism- the biggest man in it, anywhere. Wherever there are bankers, investment salesmen and alert businessmen, there he is known. Few keep business secrets from...
...emotional. The clash of their natures showed itself at the very formation of the U. S. Steel Corp. in 1901. The late John Pierpont Morgan attracted Judge Gary, the legalist, to organize his iron and steel consolidation plans, and to give them grace. The late Andrew Carnegie was the biggest steel maker in the U. S., and Mr. Schwab was to all purposes Andrew Carnegie, being president of the Carnegie Steel Co. and Carnegie's prime partner. They could wreck the Morgan schemes. But they wanted to sell out-for nearly a half billion dollars. "Charlie" Schwab consummated that...
...take the case of national bag limits on migratory birds. There is a nation-wide fight for reductions in these . . . the biggest flight of wild ducks through the Mississippi Valley that we had seen in autumn for 20 years. This year we again had a deluge of ducks...