Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...
...Webb, the tertium quid, is more unlike Chesterton than seems possible. Chesterton would address two street boys, a woman and a baby as if they were a grand demonstration. Webb would address the biggest demonstration as if he were telling the boots what to do with the luggage. . . . Chesterton's weaknesses encourage; Webb's powers humiliate. . . . Neither Chamberlain nor Chesterton would have a dog's chance if the Glasgow academic electorate were capable of appreciating Webb...
...landing in Alhucemas Bay, any military expert will tell you is the biggest success yet attained in the Riff War, and it should be properly accredited...
...estimate as of Oct. 1 provided the biggest sensation of the year. Previously the Government "experts" had not predicted a cotton crop of as much as 14,000,000 bales. The estimate as of Sept. 16, in fact, was 13,931,000 bales, and on Sept. 1, 13,740,000 bales. Suddenly, as of Oct. 1, the estimate shot up by 828,000 bales and reached 14,759,000. After being below privately made estimates of the cotton crop, the Government estimate is now higher than the largest important private estimate...
...graduates have delighted in revealing. Owen Wister and the authors of "Little Codfish Cabot" together with a host of others loss recent have detailed the vagaries of Freshman foibles. One of the typical stories told relates the experience of one newly entered student who found himself "rushed by the biggest club in the college", as he wrote his parents. The club it was revealed, was the Harvard Union...