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Word: greatest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer get away with it much," he said. On days when the crowds were especially large, such as on Saturdays during the football season, according to the former conductor, only about half the fares were collected; but now very few people get by without paying, even in the greatest crowds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advent of Fare-Box Has Reduced "Crashing the Gate" to Minimum, According to Harvard Square Subway Guard | 12/2/1924 | See Source »

...they set out as guests of Governor Hardee of Florida on a trip up the St. Johns River and through the southern part of Florida. They honored by their presence the dedication of the new sixmile, three-million-dollar concrete bridge connecting St. Petersburg and Tampa, one of the greatest engineering achievements of the South. Eventually they went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Their Excellencies | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

Delcroix. But the greatest speech of any was yet to come and with it the greatest surprise and the greatest enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Vote of Confidence | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

This conclusion was derived by comparing New Brooms with the manager's greatest success, The First Year. The latter will be recalled as a genial and amazingly human comedy of married life. It lacked a plot and was replete with homely wit. New Brooms boasts a plot, little penetration and less laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 1, 1924 | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...call the attention of the curious public to the fact that he had just, with commendable prevision, published the first of four parts of Ladislas St. Reymont's chief work. "Autumn, volume one of The Peasants," said Publisher Knopf some weeks ago, "would appear to be undoubtedly the greatest Polish novel of the Century." The award of the Nobel Prize goes far to support its publisher's pronunciamento...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

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