Word: greatest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...partly, doubtless, the result of the instantaneous communications and the widespread publicity of the modern world that the greatest flood in the nation's history arouses little more interest than the leading murder trial of the movement. In the days when news was exaggerated around all the campfires in the wilderness, the whole-hearted sympathy of the people would have turned towards the Mississippi valley; but now the city of New Orleans, its fate still hanging in the balance, causes less excitement than the struggle, several years ago, to save the life of one man trapped in a Kentucky cave...
...menaces, the greatest was pestilence. Typhoid broke out. Measles, scarlet fever and dysentery threatened. Weakened by their drenching, the refugees succumbed easily...
...Publius Vergilius Maro, "greatest Roman poet," author of the Aeneid, was born, strictly speaking, not at Mantua, but on a farm nearby...
...annual stockholders' meeting of the U. S. Steel Corp. in Manhattan last week, Judge Gary beamed at 250 investors, the greatest number he had ever seen at such a meeting. The rest of the corporation's 160,000 shareholders sent in their voting proxies as usual. But these 250 wanted actually to hear their own voices voting to increase their capitalization from $868,583,600 to $1,071,904,000. This nominally approximates $203,321,000 on the common stock. The market value of the new shares, however, is close...
Another lecture of more than usual interest will be Professor Gulick's on "Oedipus the King" in Greek 11 at 12 o'clock in Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost...