Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty-nine seven-letter words, being the greatest assortment in a given length...
...previous year and to $3,000.000 in the year before that. Adding in the sums earned by the Panama Railroad, the machine shops, commissaries, coaling plants, etc., the net revenue amounted to $18,254,459-handsome enough. U. S. ships were by far the greatest users of the Canal, contributing 61.7% of the total. Great Britain stood next with 22.4%; and 19 other nations, including the Free City of Danzig, Yugo-Slavia, Finland, trailed with none of them as much as 5% of the traffic. Exactly half the ships using the Canal were engaged in the U. S. intercoastal trade...
...helpers to give us assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles. After about an hour of that discouraging work, we heard a lot of noise behind, and down the road came a Ford coupe--nothing daunted and with the greatest ease. At that moment my friend and I were feeling about our lowest, and we were strongly reminded that the days of Sir Philip Sidney are not over, for out of that very Ford stepped two Harvard undergraduates (both feeling fine!) and offered assistance. We thanked them, but refused...
...note referred the reader to the World's Magazine Section-where were set down little-known facts about Harry Houdini: that he was born to the name of Weiss, son of a scholarly rabbi; that he tock his name from a French magician, Robert Houdini; that his "greatest trick" is allowing himself to be garbed in a dress coat, packed in a bag, boxed in a locked and corded trunk, whence he appears in a few seconds and reveals his wife (or other colleague) garbed, packed, boxed, locked, corded in his place...
...maximum speed of only 75 m.p.h., while the new boat will easily attain 100 m.p.h. Finally the NC-4's range was only 1,600 mi. with every tank brimming with gasoline, while the new boat will have a range of 2,600 mi. Incidentally, this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew 2,600 mi. non-stop across the Continent and still had gas to spare in their Fokker monoplane. But their ship was stripped bare. The new seaplane, when making a single hop from San Diego to Honolulu, will carry...