Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small also were most of the Committee's suggested amendments to the Work Relief act and the Corrupt Practices act, chiefly little plugs for little loopholes. The biggest...
...Biggest Rebel victory of the week was the capture, by the bayonet, of Granadella, 18 miles south of Lerida, centre of the Catalonian battlefront. Before they could take Artesa, however, a group of rugged, rocky peaks well-defended by machine-gun nests had to be crossed...
...traditional style, Broadway, after a haggard week-before-Christmas, had a full-to-bursting holiday week. One matinee day accumulated, around Manhattan, 681 standees, biggest matinee box office since 1929. The period was crammed with openings, three of them in the nature of comebacks...
Massachusetts, birthplace of public education in the U. S., has an old school law with teeth in it. Any Massachusetts town that fails properly to support its public schools may be fined an amount twice its biggest annual school expenditure. Recently Woburn's Mayor William E. Kane cut the schools' allowance. Woburn's teachers went unpaid. Thereupon they complained to the State Attorney General. Fortnight ago a Middlesex County grand jury solemnly indicted the City of Woburn, Inc. for school nonsupport. This week the town goes on trial. If it is convicted Woburn taxpayers may be fined...
...brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part of Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., second biggest in the State, for $20,195,991-a compromise figure considerably higher than FPC's cost valuation but slightly under Iowa-Nebraska's original cost valuation...