Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diversion issue has been the greatest. Engineers for the defense and engineers for the prosecution, Army engineers and Canadian engineers, have examined and re-examined the causes of an undeniable lowering of Great Lakes levels. Their reports have shown that the Chicago drainage canal can be charged with only a small fraction of the shrinkage. Nature, and men in cities other than Chicago, have done the rest. The engineers stated just how much effect various degrees of diversion at Chicago would have on the levels in general; pointed out means of preventing any lowering outside of Lake Michigan (by control...
...wish to say to everyone, and particularly to the host of loyal friends regardless of party who have been so helpful, that I am very, very, very happy. And why shouldn't I be, when my children are to receive the greatest Christman present of their lives-their daddy...
...Dispersed into the lobbies as Lord Weir dwelt lugubriously on unemployment, pointing out that, whereas 7.8% was the greatest unemployment figure prior to the War, no less than 13.4% or 2,500,000 are now dependent upon poor law relief...
...life goes seldom to the fleet of foot. More often it is won by some innovator who procures a motorcycle and rides to victory amid envious shouts of "Unfair!" Such an innovator is tall,* big-boned Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, never a seaman but the world's greatest shipman. He towered to international fame (TIME, Dec. 6) when the Royal Mail Line of which he is Chairman bought the White Star. Last week correspondents enthroned him as a personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute of Marine...
...date one of the greatest achievements of Signor Mussolini has been to retain dominance over both Royalists and Republicans. Both secretly hope that he will eventually cast his whole weight upon their side...