Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York may be the biggest, Chicago the wickedest, Boston the dullest--but Detroit is the richest city in the United States. By a careful and crafty compilation of figures the Detroit Free Press shows that the individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain...
...coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical way for France to deal with her able son's discovery seemed to be to divulge it to one of the biggest coal-producing nations-the U. S., China, Germany-thus drive down the price of natural petroleum and import that as before...
...troops to put down General Aguinaldo's insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code of statutes for the Islands; he acted for the U. S. in the internation dispute over the Boxer Rebellion; he (not President Roosevelt as is popularly thought) had the biggest role in the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902; he reorganized the Army, creating a general staff and chief of staff; he smoothed out the Alaskan boundary dispute with Great Britain...
...Boland broke his leg. Fred Collins broke his jaw. But even with its biggest tackle and its fullback hurt, Notre Dame had dash enough left to beat Minnesota...
...Lincoln, Neb., one Emil A. Glatt, farmer, started building with his own hands "the biggest spite fence in legal history," wooden towers 45 feet high supporting six strands of heavy wire near the top. Reason given by Farmer Glatt for his spite...