Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggested as a criterion whereby TIME readers might judge whether they wanted FORTUNE. The point: that "business" (or what Philosopher Dewey calls "technological industry") is the dominant characteristic of the present age. As authority for this quasi-philosophical observation, FORTUNE chose the man who has most frequently been called "greatest U. S. philosopher" although many another might have been used, as for example Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin who said (TIME, Oct. 14): "The entire globe is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science. . . ."-ED. Scheme Sirs...
...during last season. Active agitation for a rink has been carried on in the meantime however, by a group of Dartmouth alumni interested in hockey. The donor of this latest gift to Dartmouth enables the College to fill what graduating classes have often voted to be the greatest athletic need of the College...
...Billy Bull called Owen 'the greatest of all Harvard backs, Mahan included.' George had no equal when it came to grim resolution, the will to win. Owen was the gridiron's pinch hitter, almost invariably rising to occasions...
...announcing the financing, Texas Co. President Ralph C. Holmes said the proceeds would be used for expansion of the present organization rather than the acquisition of new units. Already one of the greatest in the world is the system to which this expansion will be brought. Texas Co.'s oil and gasoline are the only brand sold in every state. To supply this demand, as well as foreign markets, the company controls 6,431,151 acres of oil land from which flow 147,000 barrels a day. Pipe lines carry this oil 6,505 miles to 17 refineries, after...
Inventor Whittum entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. Last week he received a curious scholarship of $600 given annually by Henry Jones Fuller, Manhattan banker and Worcester trustee, to that member of the entering class who has shown greatest "Yankee Ingenuity." Should Inventor Whittum win another scholarship in his succeeding years at Worcester, from Trustee Fuller he will receive another...