Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those Harvard men accustomed to a tasty bit in the forenoon or perhaps late at night, in such establishments as Reuben's, the advent of the Harvard Bar to Boylston Street will be an occurrence of the greatest import. To the smaller group whose memory spans the long dry years to the days when one could get a foaming beaker, the timely reappearance of mugs and their slightly impoverished content will bring back innumerable memories...
...years ago the Vagabond sat in the Century Theatre and watched a New York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
Time has only added to the glory of the man who was recognized in his time as the greatest of the trinity of tragedians that flourished in Periclean Athens: The work of Sophocles finds the mean between the rather conservative religions views of Aeschylus and the radical thought of Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet...
...before them it has been the purpose of the directors to avoid repetition and, when fine examples of a period were available in either of the other public collections in Boston the Fogg Museum has wisely counted these as part of its teaching equipment and made its greatest effort to bring to Cambridge the work of men whose paintings could not be studied to advantage elsewhere. This principle has been extended to include the various periods in the work of great master
Moving pictures, the single universal language, are the greatest force today in the promotion of international understanding, according to Will Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, who spoke at the Union yesterday...