Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think it would be a "good stunt" for TIME to publish the line-up of the All American High School Basket Ball Team for 1928. Here you will again find Ashland, Kentucky, well represented, with Ellis Johnson who is called the "greatest high school basket ball general" being the unanimously elected captain...
Only one personage connected with the affair seemed completely indifferent to the rumpus, threats and stump speaking. He was the buyer of the ships, Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. For him they are a bagatelle. He is the greatest Ship Man in the world, the chairman or director of more than 20 British steamship lines with an aggregate capital exceeding ?200,000,000. His greatest and best remembered coup was to purchase, for the interests which he heads, the White
...into the largest and perhaps the most blatant exhibit at the convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...
...greatest danger which faces Rotary today is that we Rotarians, so smug and secure economically, feel that by simply belonging to the Rotary Club, we are discharging our obligations. Rotary was never meant to be a smoke screen behind which we could hide from our civic duties. . . . Adulation for the word 'service' has become almost nauseating. . . ." This brief brave speech was made in Asbury Park, N. J., by the second vice president of Rotary International, whose name is Leonard T. Skeggs. The president of Rotary International is Arthur H. Sapp...
...Wilkins," he concluded, "has given all these well-known facts a new meaning by his flight, and may be considered a pioneer in what will probably develop into one of the greatest air routes of the future...