Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tibbetts '26 is perhaps the greatest of Crimson two-milers and distance men. A lean, wiry, middle-height individual, with a smooth untiring stride, he has run some of the finest races in Crimson track history. In the Triangular meet of 1925 he was destined to score the fourth new record. He came up against the widely heralded entry from Hanover, Osgood, who had smashed the Dartmouth record a week before, and against Craig of Cornell. The race turned out to be one of Tibbetts against time, in which the former won by 11 2-5 seconds...
Seated on the rail of the greatest liner, coyly showing the rounded part of the famous knees, she may adorn the front page of the Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings...
First, for Wall Street: Australia is a first class investment field, a rich, new, underpopulated continent with the stability and wisdom of the greatest world empire behind its expansion...
Great banks have been considering reducing wages. Suggesting in the current issue of the American Bankers Association Journal that banks cut interest rates on deposits, President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York (greatest bank in the U. S.; deposits: $1,275,041,000) writes: "While it is unpleasant to think of disturbing relations with depositors, it is even more so to think of reducing the pay of the bank staffs...
...often able to save money, especially when, 'through the kindness of financial leaders who are on their church boards,' they are let in on the ground floor on good investments. 12. The pension fund (Episcopal) will soon insure a comfortable income in old age. 13. 'The greatest joy of the ministry, however, has nothing to do with its financial compensations; it is the fact that it is his life work to make bad men and women good...