Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest thrill to the Juan Tomas children, however, was not Albuquerque's civilization but the wonders of nature. They insisted on seeing the zoo twice, were most awed by the monkeys and lions. Said a sparkling-eyed 5-year-old, looking at the ostrich: "Oh, what a big chicken...
Harvard is conceded about an even chance to take team honors at the N.C.A.A. events, with Ohio State and Michigan the biggest threats to Crimson supremacy. A lot will depend on the breaks. According to the times both have turned in this season, Hutter and Kendall ought to take between them the two sprints and the two "distance" races. If Captain-elect Rusty Greenhood can come through with a third in the dive to Ohio State's superb artists, Patnik and Patterson, the Crimson's point total will be bolstered. The medley team should place second to Princeton's American...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Producer Darryl F. Zanuck for consistently high quality in 1937 production went the newest & biggest award, an effeminate-looking bust of the late young M-G-M producer, Irving G. Thalberg; to meritorious others, other Oscars, plaques, scrolls. In other years winners were chosen by vote of the Academy members (less than 1,000). This year the chief ones were elected in a poll of 15,000 actors, directors, writers, other eligible Hollywood craftsmen...
HELEN KELLER'S JOURNAL - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A rebuke to self-pitiers is this diary of 57-year-old Helen Keller in the dark days that followed the death (in 1936) of her lifelong companion and famed teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy. Last fortnight Helen Keller undertook her biggest job, a campaign to raise $2,000,000 for the American Foundation for the Blind...
...second most exclusive address in the British Empire, No. 10 Downing Street. There a State luncheon, with plenty of wine, was offered them by Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, who had invited pro-French Mr. & Mrs. Winston Churchill, pro-German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about how all Munich's motor vehicles, including beer trucks, had been commandeered and were roaring out along Adolf Hitler's concrete military Autobahnen toward Austria...