Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holland Tunnel's greatest problem was not its construction, but its ventilation-how to avoid the poisonous carbon monoxide gas exhausted from motor trucks and cars. Ventilation experiments at Yale, the University of Illinois and the U. S. Bureau of Mines showed that more than four parts of the gas in 10,000 of air was dangerous. To prevent disaster absolutely Chief Engineer Holland installed 84 ventilating fans in four 10 story buildings, two on each side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts...
...Norway stands the town of Trondhjem. Hidden in the dark dust of archives of the Association of Science in this town, lay for many years a manuscript. Last week it came to light: a rough copy in verse of Love's Comedy-second important play of the greatest of modern dramatists, Henrik Ibsen...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
Percy D. Haughton '99, Harvard's greatest football coach, who led the Crimson to the pinnacle of intercollegiate football during his eight-year regime, will be honored today at the scene of his former triumphs...
...valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...