Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest fight to increase the maximum estate tax from 20% (in the bill) to 25%. "What has made possible the perpetration of these taxing outrages at the present time?" said he. "Let me tell you. Bryan is dead, Wilson is dead, Roosevelt is dead, La-Follette is dead, Gompers is dead. They may have differed in many matters, but if they were all living they would unite in their opposition, to this bill. . . . And now may I mention the names of some other leaders on this side? You will recognize them as I mention them? Clark, DeArmond, James, Kitchin, Padgett...
...greatest prosperity in railroading was seen in the southern district, and resulted not only from the Florida boom but the general opening-up of the southeastern states which is now going on. In the East, the roads did quite well with the exception of the anthracite carriers. Western roads, however, continued to lag behind, partly as a result of competition with the Panama Canal, partly from low freight rates...
Died. Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 83, in London. He was successively Physician in Ordinary to Their Majesties Victoria, Edward VII, and George V, first Baron Powell, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, perhaps the greatest English specialist in diseases of the heart and lungs, famed champion of the dietetic properties of suet pudding...
...efficient, there are sure to be a few lamentable muddle-heads. But most organizations, particularly newspaper organizations, provide a system of checking which will prevent the stupidities of their dullards from appearing in print. Not so the New York Times. For although critics agree that the Times is the greatest newspaper in the world, its readers have twice within the last month been offended by bungling worthy of the yellowest provincial newssheet. The first occasion was when the Times reprinted as a quotation from a college daily part of an item that had been cribbed from its own editorial page...
...heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action." This is but the dictum of Chuang Tizu, the greatest of Taoist philosophers, and Taoism does not exert any very remarkable influence in this country; it can be no more than a suggestion. But even a suggestion that there is more than mere laziness in the American inertia is not to be lightly cast aside...