Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary fact that the silk-stocking element is often the greatest offender in whispering campaigns. It is the woman with the low-necked dress and with orchids, and it is the young broker seeking to justify his political prejudices, who lend themselves to being carriers of these scandal stories...
...fashion has been revived and the world is anxiously waiting for its political leaders to cut their coats according to their cloth and not indulges themselves in luxuries. Fred I. Kent, Vice President of the Bankers' Trust Co., one of the greatest financial authorities of the U. S., declared that the Experts' Plan, details of which the representatives of ten Nations were discussing in London, "carries within it so much common sense that it is hardly conceivable that sufficient force can be arrayed against it to prevent its being put into operation." But, warned he, if the plan...
...History of Trade Unionism, which has been well received by all shades of political thought as an authoritative work. Their most recent book, The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation, did indeed meet with severe criticism and is unquestionably faulty−although a highly illuminative book. Again, they are probably the greatest authorities on municipal affairs in Britain and certainly the greatest Socialist-economists of their time. It is said of them that they have such a mastery of detail that they can quote from memory the export and import figures for any commodity in any given year...
...Miquel is neither a great student nor a great critic of philosophy, but is himself a philosopher dealing with his own material−"naked humanity and its secret passions and hidden dreams, its obscure gropings and faltering hopes" Probably his greatest work is Del Sentimento Tragico de la Vida. In 1912, even the King spoke of him as "my friend Unamuno...
...demanding that the rights be given her. And certainly she appears to be in the strongest position. The moderation of the treaty she made with Persia after the invasion of 1920 and the fact that she has chased the English out of the Northern Provinces have given her the greatest prestige there and she is using her best diplomatic efforts to take advantage of this...