Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there. In 1893 he established a meteorological station on the summit of the famous Andes peak, El Misti, which rears its head 19,000 feet above sea level. In this little hut which is by far the highest station erected for scientific observation in the world observations of the greatest importance were carried on for over 10 years...
...Fogg Museum is now exhibiting rare prints of many of the greatest of the German masters of the sixteenth century exclusive of Durer...
Discomfited but unsubmitting, the Graphic publishd an editorial. In the first paragraph it declared the Graphic Cross Word Puzzle Contest was the greatest contest in the history of journalism; in the second it declared the Graphic Cross-Word Puzzle Contest was the greatest contest ever inaugurated by a newspaper; in the third, that the readers of the Graphic had a chance to win cash prizes for their answers; in the fourth, that the prizes were real cash; in the fifth, that the prizes were real cash. In the sixth paragraph it declared that it "wanted to be explicit about this...
...consider Robert E. Lee one of the greatest men of all time," said Major General Sir Frederick B. Maurice, in the course of an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently. General Maurice is spending several weeks here giving a series of eight lectures on the great Confederate general...
...become interested in Lee?", he said, leaning back in his swivel chair. "Thirty odd years ago, when I was a young chap, a rather prominent elderly gentleman of my acquaintance said that the greatest man he ever met was Robert E. Lee. That struck me, you know, for I had never heard of him before, and yet I knew that friend of mine had met Bismarck, Von Moltke, Gladstone and a dozen other great men. Robert E. Lee must have been a remarkable character to have impressed my friend so profoundly...