Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor the memory of Captain John Ericsson, a Swede who made the greatest contribution to the success of the Union cause in the Civil War, that the memorial has been erected...
These two opposing views, as everyone knows, were presented with the greatest energy by M. Paul-Boncour (France) and Viscount Cecil (Britain) when the Council of the League deliberated upon these questions and many another (TIME, Dec. 21). As a result, it was considered imperative that vital if quite academic preparations should be made before the Disarmament Conference itself should be convoked - if ever. The press of the world has unfortunately given the impression by its headlines that "disarming" is to be attempted at this preliminary and purely preparatory conference. Such is not the case...
Adolph S. Ochs, genius of the New York Times, by many revered as the greatest U. S. newspaper proprietor and the greatest U. S. Jew, swung into the campaign handsomely. His paper advocated the fund far more than any other Manhattan journal, exhorted, reported extensively, published stimulating daily lists of contributors...
...knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high and ten feet through, and tried to realize that, according to the Magnus principle, the quartering wind that struck the cylindrical metal sails created suction on their surfaces, the suction being greatest on the forward surfaces when they were rotated "into the wind" - i.e., clockwise for a starboard breeze, counterclockwise for a larboard. By proper reversals of the rotors, the ship was easily made to tack and maneuver...
...particular dangerous man on the Yale team is Green, at out home, who has done the greatest amount of scoring this season. For the University, Captain Reed has been playing a superlative game at first defense...