Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit of The Spirit of St. Louis, headed for Nicaragua...
...except parchment. A year ago Adolph S. Ochs's New York Times, leader, in many aspects, of all the journals of the land, conceived the rag paper notion and prints a limited supply each day. (See p. 7.) The Patterson-McCormick Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," felt called upon to offer a similar service to millionaire subscribers and posterity...
...told big stories of triumphs in Palestine, in Peking, in Hindustan, in Mexico. But in Manhattan they had to hear for themselves-Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, succulent morsels by Suk, Schubert, Debussy, Novacek, Paganini. Some critics called him the world's greatest fiddler. Others saved their superlatives for Kreisler who arrived the day before from Europe...
...that the alumni, especially, will keep the Appointment Office actively in mind, the notify its Secretary whenever there are openings in their own organizations, or any others. The source of such information can be kept confidential if desired. The sole aim of the Staff is not to place the greatest number of men, but to help with advice and general information, so that each man may obtain the right positions...
...contains hundreds of reproductions of early German engravings, the working materials used by Dr. Max Lehrs, one of the world's greatest print scholars, in preparing his monumental work in five volumes, "Geschichte and Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen, Niederlacndischen and Franzoesischen Kupferstichs im XV Jahrhundert", and of articles written by him on sixteenth century German engravers...