Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventy-eight years is a long life. It has just been crowned by Mr. Edison's greatest discovery. What enormous benefit will this nation derive if the respect is paid him which is his due! Politicians, merchants, street car conductors, and inventors will realize at last that advice is wasted breath. They can divert the energy once given to criticism to faithful ends, while the rising generation is left to rise unmolested...
...Stevens made it clear to candidates that crew at Harvard is crew for Harvard; that a single standard prevails in judging candidates; and that this standard is merit. No spoils system, no patronage, no closed shop. Every man who wants to row is eligible, and those who show the greatest ability...
...bestowed in recognition of achievement. Without the opportunities of college training, they rose to heights the average college graduate never ascends. The simple truth is that college cannot give a man genius, seriousness of mind and determination of purpose. A man must bring these to his task. Perhaps the greatest service a college can do is to awaken the man whose attitude is: "Here I am Educate...
...called famine has come, therefore, at a time when Mr. Cosgrave's troubles are perhaps greatest, but by no means insuperable...
...many months, the question of withdrawing the French Embassy to the Vatican has been one of the greatest issues on the horizon for French domestic politics. Opposition came from a staunch conservative section of Catholics, but nowhere was feeling so hostile as in the two long-lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Nor was this all. In France, the Church is completely and utterly divorced from politics and education. Not so in Alsace and Lorraine (TIME. Sept. 8). It was only perfectly natural that the Government at Paris should wish the two Provinces to be governed by the same laws...