Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the arrival of three Pennsylvania crews this morning, the invasion of visiting oarsmen in preparation for the Harvard-Cornell-Pennsylvania-M. I. T. races Saturday will begin. This will be the biggest regatta ever held on the Charles, and will undoubtedly attract the largest crowd ever to witness a race on the Charles...
...International Planning Conference which met last week in New York refused to go into ecstasies over the greatest collection of tall buildings in the world. One of them Dr. Raymond Unwin of England, even dared to call it "congested impotence". With eyes unprejudiced by the American axiom that the biggest thing must necessarily be the best, these men looked into the future and recoiled at the thought of fifty-story apartment houses so thickly set that the people will have to take turns walking on the street. They believe the solution lies in "satellite" cities, garden suburbs, and an efficient...
...York is giving the philosophy of height a trial. New Yorkers look forward eagerly to a city two or three times thicker in cross-section than it is now, evidently willing to put up with vertical existence for the satisfaction of saying that they live in the biggest city in the world. Meanwhile crystal gazers predict that the decentralization of New York must come about some day, not with the consent of the inhabitants to be sure, but in spite...
...world's biggest and fastest airplane-carrier will slide off the ways of the N. Y. Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, N. J., and will be christened U. S. S. Saratoga...
...Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for The Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western Radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before...