Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief love is the sea, but only in sailing ships. He hates steamers. "I love to fight the storm," he continued, "and I love my boat. I am going back to it in a few days; I'm not at home on land. Sailors are the greatest fraternity, and the sailors of wind-jammers are the aristocrats of the bunch. I've been six times around the world, and sailing men are the same all over...
...nature of the Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...
Seymour Lowman, U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, took the opportunity to make another remark of the sort which has not endeared him to his sober superiors. Said Mr. Lowman, sarcastically: "One of the greatest accomplishments of my term in this office is the reformation of Jimmy Walker. Another soul has been redeemed...
David Lloyd George. Grief had welled up in every loyal Briton's heart, and with good cause. The Empire was laying to rest her greatest soldier, the Scotchman who commanded all her armies in France from 1915 until the final victory, Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
...tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty but for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America . . . demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," the National Aeronautic Association awarded the Collier Trophy last week to Charles Lanier Lawranee, designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor, president of the Wright Aeronautical Corp...