Word: greatest
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...Louis Borno, President of the Negro Republic of Haiti (see p. 6). From the deck of the Trenton he watched the U. S. display its naval power while he chatted with Theodore Douglas Robinson, fourth Roosevelt to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They saw the greatest force of U. S. sailors that has ever been assembled, the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Fifteen Admirals took part in the review; Admiral Hughes commanded...
...greatest single endeavor of all gangs appears to be chasing and running through the streets. They never meet indoors. Misbehavior is entirely traceable to the youths' environment-lack of play facilities. They have no equipment or room for sports and games. A ten-cent rubber ball is used for a football with the lamp posts for goal lines. A stick becomes a sword to be jabbed into someone. Grimy little fists poke into forbidden places and come out with articles of value. That is their...
...Coolidge prize of $100 for that member of the Harvard team who has shown the greatest ability in preparation for the debate will be awarded tonight...
...Boston, find it necessary to make excuses in an attempt to justify the existence of the "Missa Solemnis". It seems to them that Beethoven not only had the bad taste to be a Catholic, but he also had the unpardonably bad taste of composing one of his very greatest musical compositions for the celebration of High Mass and then what does he do but delicate it to his friend the Archbishop of Olmutz...
...this column fails at least to try and get a ticket for tonight's performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which is being given in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock, he deserves to have his name struck from the role of Vagabondier, for he will have missed the greatest musical event of the season. But if he can't get in tonight, he can probably go Sunday afternoon...