Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times, Lord Northeliffe achieved his greatest ambition by purchasing it in 1908. However to his eternal credit Major John Jacob Astor, brother of Viscount Astor, purchased the Times from the Northcliffe estate (1922), restored ita long and honorable independence, and has transferred its control in perpetuity to a board on which it is hopei will always sit the Lord Chief Justice and the Governor of the Bank of England...
...Roman Catholic William Dameron Guthrie, San Francisco-born attorney in the famed oleomargarine case before the U. S. Supreme Court, is now President of the Association of the Bar of New York City. With Paul D. Cravath (see p. 22) he is one of Manhattan's greatest corporation lawyers. Obedient to the request of Patrick Cardinal Hayes he sat down recently and wrote and wrote and wrote. Last week the New York Times published in twelve and one half full newspaper columns an abbreviated version of Lawyer Guthrie's scathing opinion of the Mexican Constitution and President Calles...
...marble should ever have been colored seems not only impossible to most people but almost sac-religious. But it is well to realize that not only was such sculpture as was done in marble painted in many details, but also that colored designs decorated the temples, and that the greatest glory of Greek art was a statue in gold and ivory...
...CRIMSON of course presupposes that plans are being laid by the Administration for some gathering at which the undergraduates, the faculty, and the alumni may meet together for the common purpose of honoring the memory of Harvard's greatest President and America's greatest educational leader. The CRIMSON feels certain that all members past and present of the college and of the graduate schools, would wish to honor with fitting ceremony the man who more than any other has made the name of Harvard one to glory...
...these dramas. "The Daughters of Troy," is the subject of a lecture to be given by Professor Gulick in Sever 26 12 o'clock this morning. Although by no means Euripides' greatest work, being more a pathetic, melodramatic spectacle than a drama. 'It shows better perhaps than any other the romantic quality entering into the tragedy of Sophocles...