Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME writer a thoroughgoing reprimand for facetious reference to the state which in 1920 led all states in production of iron pyrites and soapstone; stood third in production of lime and manganese, sixth in mineral waters. Virginia's greatest industry is agriculture. She raises more tobacco than any state save Kentucky and North Carolina...
...Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew 2,400 miles without seeing land. The greatest over-water distance of the Atlantic flights is the 1,800 miles between Newfoundland and Ireland...
...certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg. When, in 1922, the Baron's wife sued him for divorce, she named Princess Charlotte-who was reported to have said blithely on the witness stand: "My husband knew everything. I swear it with the greatest possible pleasure...
...killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro on March 16, 1914, because his paper was attacking her husband? Naturally M. Caillaux has not divorced so faithful a wife. Instead, the lady to whom he referred was his wife by an earlier marriage, Mme. Gueydan. She, a woman of the greatest selfmastery, has retained a position of dignity and honor, despite the astounding ups and downs of M. Caillaux who, for example, was convicted by the French Senate of "plotting against the security of the state abroad," in 1920; yet managed to become Minister of Finance...
...then to maintain the solidity of the family against it, is not being an intelligent guide. I am not saying which way science seems to point, I am merely raising the question to show that whatever the Church urges, it should attempt to know in which direction is the greatest upward development. Or again, if to sanctify unmarried unions would do away, as some urge it would, with promiscuity and the double standard, and better protect the children of legal marriages, then to keep on fussing with rules about divorce, and the idea that all marriages are made in heaven...