Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion some comment that this institution is left intact. No change is suggested because the greatest need is for a better and larger personnel of section men and readers. And this improvement could hardly be made simultaneously with the extension already outlined...
...taken from him the forelock which once wandered down over his forehead. Gone is the drooping walrusness of his once black moustache. What is there to mark him from the obscurity out of which he came? To date, only that he?one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the Senate, one of the most conscientious, careful-minded men?is the greatest discoverer of political mud in this generation. This will be all?unless Mr. Fall or Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Doheny goes to jail. If one of them serves a jail sentence, then that finely molded head of Senator Walsh...
...perhaps truer of France than of any representative democracy in the world that personality plays the prominent role in politics. Last week, the greatest interest ought to have been evinced in the Painlevé Government's policy, but it was not. France was far more interested in Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, "the man who came back...
With purring motors turning whirring propellers, the U. S. A. S. Los Angeles glided from Lakehurst to the Bermudas with the greatest human cargo ever carried through the air-58 men all told. Besides these, the airship carried fuel for 50 hours' flying, rations for 60 hours, ten sacks of mail. Twelve hours at an average speed of 41.66 miles took the Los Angeles over the 500 miles of Atlantic that separates the U. S. from the Bermudas, where without untoward incident she was moored in a strong wind to the mast of the Patoka, reconstructed naval tender. Thus...
Foreign delegates to the International Planning Conference which met last week in New York refused to go into ecstasies over the greatest collection of tall buildings in the world. One of them Dr. Raymond Unwin of England, even dared to call it "congested impotence". With eyes unprejudiced by the American axiom that the biggest thing must necessarily be the best, these men looked into the future and recoiled at the thought of fifty-story apartment houses so thickly set that the people will have to take turns walking on the street. They believe the solution lies in "satellite" cities, garden...