Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are all the nations whose quotas are more than 400 except Italy and represent by far the greatest bulk of the immigration. Italy with a quota of 3,845, had issued visas to only 2,487 immigrants by the end of the first week in June (the latest report). This condition in Italy must be artificial, as a far greater number of Italians are known to be anxious to come to this country. The Italian Government as well as our consuls have been picking the immigrants, which may have had a retarding influence. The Italian quota may be filled...
...official membership of the new Church is approximately given as 652,378. It is the greatest organic union of religious sects in modern times...
...Lawrence Tibbett (issue June 15, Page 13) where you refer to "paunchy hotel proprietor." Here are the names of the five foremost hotel men in the business: John M ("Jack") Bowman, Lucius Boomer, E M. 'Statler, Ernest Stevens, Frank A. Dudley, the last named the head of the greatest hotel chain in the world. But where is their "PAUNCH." Even yours truly denies the possession of one. Gaze on the enclosed pictures of the youngsters in the Class in Hotel Management at Cornell University. Dockery is 6 feet 3; the graduates average just a trifle under 6 feet. Although...
...clean a horse as you could wish to see-small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another...
...check, last week, to New York University for the foundation of a College of Aeronautics,* "has long been identified with exploration beneath the earth. We have tried to assist in developments which would make mining more safe as well as more profitable and therefore of the greatest economic value. I have learned through my son, Harry F. Guggenheim, who was one of the first civilians to enter aviation and was a naval aviator overseas during the World War, of the plans of New York University to establish a School of Aeronautics in its College of Engineering...