Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the league schedules have been completed, the team winning the greatest percentage of its contests is awarded a pennant, emblematic of a league championship. Then, early in October, the two league champions meet to compete for higher honors, additional cash. Attended by flag-waving rooters with brass bands, unlimited free publicity from the press, the National League winners engage their American League prototypes in deadly combat?best four out of seven games, known as the World Series...
...acquiring Whiteley's, H. Gordon Selfridge, onetime partner of Marshall Field's, Chicago, becomes the greatest store owner of Europe. In London alone he will have a full mile of window displays...
Western Union's net income last year was $15,205,049, no notable increase above the $15,186,259 of 1925. Yet the gross operating revenues were $134,464,886, the greatest in the concern's history, considerably more than the $127,078,023 of the previous year. In report to stockholders last week, President Newcomb Carlton said that 64,000 miles of copper wire were strung during...
...neither the story nor the characters that constitute the greatest charm of the book--it is that very elusive thing called atmosphere. The little French village of Buissac is presented with all the force of one who knows whereof she writes. Seasons change, floods rage, the plot wavers, but one never loses sight of the French spirit as seen through English eyes. For those who like their romances tragic and especially for the ladies "The Old Countess" is certain to be entertaining story. It could have been made very saccharine, but instead it is filled with a rather quiet charm...
...story of Tristram and Isolt--of all medieval stories--seems modern imagination. Wagner, Swinburne, Hardy, and Belloc have all retold it, each changing it somewhat to suit his own purposes, but treating it always for what it is--one of the greatest love stories in the world. And now that such an important poet as Mr. Robinson, in the third of his Arthurian poems, has retold it once again, it is a matter of considerable interest to see with what success he has done...