Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. W. T. Brinson, 64, "world's biggest Elk"; at Waycross, Ga., of apoplexy. Elk Brinson's 600 pounds necessitated special chairs, special bed, special vehicle, special coffin, ten pallbearers...
...Rome last week and immediately crowded. To save wheat, from which spaghetti and macaroni are made, the canteens will not offer these comestibles at a reduced rate, will attempt instead to popularize potatoes,- a vegetable thus far unloved by Latins. F. I. A. T. For Italy's biggest industrial plant a $10,000,000 bond issue was sold...
...biggest eye in the world winked open and shut last week, a finished article. It was a long-range camera for the Army air service, with a nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon...
Engaged. John Macrae Jr., eldest son of the president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (big, perhaps biggest U. S. book publisher); to Anne Hinton of Manhattan...
Endowments. The era of physical expansion at the colleges had by no means, ended nor the endowment-raising era to maintain buildings and support the pedagogy that is to operate within them. The biggest campaign announced during the year was that of New York University, for 73 millions in the next decade. (During 1923-24 the total gifts to all colleges, not counting state appropriations, was only 91 millions...