Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Folsom Prison, a stronghold whose ashen walls command a desolate stretch of the American River valley laid waste by goldseekers. Prisons are gruesome places at best but Folsom ranks with the worst as a focus of human distemper and desperation. Last week, Folsom was the scene of the greatest prison revolt in California history...
...greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved by the Fascist Government," was the gloating comment, last week, of Il Tevere and other Fascist news organs, when Signor Benito Mussolini caused to be revealed in Rome that a new Italo-Albanian treaty had been signed two days previously in the Albanian capital, Tirana...
...grave by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Kamenev, Rakovsky and an unspecified member of the Joffe family-all Oppositionists. Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, spoke first, paying an eloquent tribute to M. Joffe's services and ability as a diplomat. But the greatest of all the speeches was that of Leon Trotsky, the Communist outcast...
...Raskob took last week's occasion to say also: "Everything indicates that 1928 will witness the greatest prosperity our country has ever enjoyed. There is little, if any, inflation anywhere, an abundance of credit, great farm purchasing power as a result of good crops and prices, and my prediction is that with the Ford Motor Co. in production the automobile industry will produce 5,000,000 units in 1928, as against 3,500,000 this year, and this gain of about 40% will add tremendous impetus to an otherwise prosperous condition...
Madonna & Child drew the greatest storm of rage and approval. By this more than life-size bronze (a splayfooted gawky peasant girl wiping her enormous hands on the flanks of a wretched skinny child), babbits were terrified. They said, one to another: "Well, I must say, I think it's blasphemous. Jesus looks positively Semitic! And when you remember the way Raphael painted the mother, it seems really shameful . . . the man must be an atheist!" Esthetes, on the other hand, became jubilant. "What strength," they murmured, "what superb nuance...