Word: greatest
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...silver mounted prize bat has been offered by a number of graduates to be awarded to the member of this year's University baseball squad who reaches first base the greatest number of times. In this will be counted bases gained in any way whatever...
...Harvard interscholastic lawn tennis tournament will be held at Jarvis Field on Saturday and the following Monday. The entrance fee will be $1.00. First and runner-up prizes will be given, and a championship banner to the school winning the greatest number of matches. The winner of the tournament will have the right, as Harvard interscholastic champion of 1900, to play at Newport in August, for the national interscholastic championship of the United States...
...energy spent upon the translation of the Talmud is well worth while From it, information is obtained in regard to astronomy and botany, and we see the extensive knowledge which the Jewish rabbis and philosophers must have had in regard to our more modern sciences. But by far the greatest result of this research has been the light it has thrown upon the writings of the New Testament. It is only by use of the Talmud that we are capable of understanding the New Testament, or can intelligently appreciate the later Biblical writings...
...highly emotional scenes of the third act, where the slightest over acting would have been fatal, he was free from any ranting, and never lost sight of the artistic limitations of the part. By his excellent acting he relieved the artificiality of the swoon scene, which is perhaps the greatest blemish in the play...
...three elements of modern civilization law is recognized as being unquestionably identified with Rome, literature with Athens, and religion with Palestine. In active pursuance of the conviction that actual research from original sources is one of the best methods of attaining the greatest knowledge of the beginnings and development of civilization, American schools for study and research have already been successfully established and maintained in Rome and Athens...