Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...released this morning but is walking on crutches and it is practically certain that he will be unable to resume his position against Princeton and extremely doubtful whether he will be fit for the Harvard game. Bingham's absence will handicap Yale all the more because Princeton's greatest attack is on end runs...
...Chicago, won for that artist the Potter Palmer prize of $1,000, while one Charles Grafly of Philadelphia was given the last large award, the Keith Spalding $1,000 medal, for his sculpture, Study of a Head of War. Many others were solaced with minor prizes which, though their greatest weight was one of honor, were yet of substance enough to keep coal in studio stoves, tea in studio pots...
...lead was at the end of its tether, so it was hauled in. A greater ocean depth than ever before discovered had been found. The greatest ocean depth previously discovered was 32,113 ft.?found by a German vessel off the coast of Mindanao (Philippines) in 1912. How much deeper the hole off Japan may be, none can tell. At any rate, it is a great deal deeper than the deepest part of the Atlantic yet found? 27,922 ft. just east of Haiti...
...publication of income taxes brought out some interesting facts about corporations as well as about individuals. The greatest single tax paid by any one industrial organization was $15,930,901-the 1923 income tax of the U. S. Steel Corporation. The similar tax paid by the Ford Motor Co. the same year was $14,449,673. The Ford Co. started with a capitalization of only $100,000, of which only $28,000 was in actual cash. The Steel Corporation, on the other hand, started with a capitalization of over a billion, including bonds. Today, the Ford Co. has no bonds...
...final whistle blue the second pilot was a hero. Not only did he show good judgement in his choice of plays, but he stood second only to Slagle in running. His 20-yard run for touchdown on the first play of the final quarter was worthy of the greatest...