Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anchor. Due to the rotating movement of the earth, all these hurricanes revolve (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) in a manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer the centre. Hence seamen invariably reach a calm spot when fighting their way through these hurricanes...
...There was no hesitation. The fastest royal automobile was ordered out with the greatest secrecy and about two o'clock, when all but a few in the palace were asleep, the car rolled out of the palace courtyard with the King himself at the wheel accompanied by the Duke of Miranda and a chauffeur...
...moment the nice opposition of tensions and sympathies that make any situation either rococo or sublime. Here is a great champion. For six years he has held sway over the whole world, and if he succeeds for the seventh year he will equal the legend left behind by the greatest champion* before him. More than that, he knows that the confidence of his countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation. Now the fashion of fighting of these two champions differs like their races. The stranger, who comes of a people hot, delicate and windy...
...farce comedies for Broadway, not to be flippant but in all honest gusto. And it was then that he pursued and married Bernice Harden, icy and feline. After he had consumed the inner fire she had for him, turned openly to Eva Freyne, a hard worldling, and written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter which is better read than retold...
Last year Mr. Forecast was engaged by the CRIMSON in the capacity of official football prognosticator. His judgments were practically infallible throughout the season, but his greatest coup was not achieved until the last two games of the schedule when he offered to wager his shirt that the University would defeat Brown (Ed. note: Harvard 3, Brown 0), and that Yale would find it impossible to down the Crimson eleven (Ed. note: Harvard 0, Yale...