Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buell, one of the greatest quarter backs the Crimson team has ever had captained the 1922 eleven, which defeated Dartmouth, Center College, and brought the season to a climax by triumphing over Yale 10 to 8. He won four major letters at the University, three in football and one in baseball...
...came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have a superior brain, but'-and I pointed dramatically to a corner of the room-'there sits the greatest living writer in England.' The man I designated was the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul...
...very substantial achievement on record, the dates of success in which carry on steadily to the present. Strauss is distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that his second field turned...
Accusations such as are contained in this article can lead to nothing and only serve to do harm to the greatest of intercollegiate sports. It is unfair to both Princeton and Harvard; to Princeton because it challenges her to defend herself when a defense is uncalled for, to Harvard because of the undignified and unsportsmanlike position in which she is irresistably placed...
...seconds, just 1-5 seconds away from the world record in this event. The finals saw him leading such stellar sprinters as Hussey of Boston College and Morrill of Boston University. Always most formidable in the short distance, Miller looks as though he has his greatest season ahead...