Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looking for no advancement in any service. I have had the finest career that any man could have in the armed service of our United States. I have had the great pleasure of serving in all our campaigns from the Spanish War to the present and of commanding the greatest air forces ever brought together on the planet. I owe the Government everything the Government owes me nothing...
...shall see whether in the worlds greatest city the forces of greed and plunder can completely muzzle the truth and whether they can appease the public appetite with Dead Sea fruit in order that they themselves may get control of the Government of New York to serve their own selfish ends at the expense of humanity and decency and honesty in municipal administration...
...richness in ideas by which it strengthens and enlarges the mind. Science has such ideas in plenty; and History and Modern Languages; but none of these subjects has them more richly than the Classics. Their strength lies just in this width of range. They include much of the greatest poetry, philosophy, history, criticism that the world has produced, and Greek in particular is the supreme embodiment of the true spirit of Science, the resolve to question all things and see them as they really...
...committee served one glorious purpose. To John L. Lewis, round-faced round-bodied President of the United Mine Workers, the committee furnished a respectful audience for one of the greatest oratorical masterpieces of his career...
Critic Grattan first cited the eulogies of Mr. Page: "The greatest and noblest American since Lincoln"; "The most heroic American of the War period"; "An intense patriot" (thus Charles W. Eliot, John W. Davis, Admiral Sims, Colonel House, Edward W. Bok, William H. Taft in an ad- dress to the Trustees of the Walter Hines Page School of Inter- national Relations); "A great citizen He gave his life...