Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe. Little news came from the greatest digging project in history: the exhumation of the Athenian agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...
...wished to be an author himself. But he was detoured from his yearnings by getting a job in a bank. The dignity from which he is now taken was the senior vice presidency of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, whose only rival for the rank of greatest Chicago bank is the Illinois Merchants Trust...
...nothing," Babe Ruth has thrice slapped the cheeks of his criticizers by not only ascending to within four homeruns of his 1921 world's record (when he hit 30 homeruns by the Fourth of July) but by leading the American League in total number of runs scored and (greatest of all) by maintaining the highest batting average in the League. However, it now appears doubtful that Ruth will break his 1921 record, for he has been out of the game for some time with an injury...
...between the old and new directly matter. But it matters to the country that there is at least one town where such a protest finds support, where even today a bard rises with a protest of the old-fashioned kind-in verse, as so many of mankind's greatest protests have been written...
...great current spectacle of U. S. Democracy, the rights of life, liberty and happiness may or may not be seen as secured to the greatest number. But there is one privilege, always reserved for the tyrannous overlords of previous civilizations, which modern Democracy unquestionably confers upon the masses. It is the privilege of Decadence. Last week the Hearstian tabloid sheetlet, the New York Daily Mirror, outdid even its pandering tabloid rivals, the Daily News and Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's Graphic, in the nice art of tickling the palate of Demos. A week before, a hosiery company had conducted...