Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of the young voter in public questions and to promote the principles of the Republican party. We are at present preoccupied with the coming election, but the future is equally, if not more important. Those who, like me for instance, feel that the Nation has had its greatest growth, its greatest accomplishment, its greatest prestige under Republican administrations are anxious to see these traditions perpetuated. This can only be done if the young voters of today understand and believe in these principles and appreciate their obligation to vote. To this we are bending our efforts...
...greatest problems of the Square was then, as now, the proper control of traffic. However, in 1857, the trouble was due to the herds of cattle that were driven through daily on their way to the Brighton market. Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton...
...series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum...
...grandest football game that ever I saw, we staged in the Stadium last year against Yale. We were the under dog, playing one of Yale's greatest teams, but she came up just the same and fought the Elis off the field. That's the kind of a game I enjoy...
...Love, hate and tradition," it has been said, "are the three dominant forces in a man's existence," and someone, scanning the genus Americanus or any other for that matter, might have added, "and the greatest of these is tradition...