Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also denounced "the six greatest evils" of the day. These, according to his enumeration, are: "Divorce, race suicide, the public dance halls ('some dances,' said he, are 'soul-killing in the extreme'), the narcotic-drug habit, the hip-pocket flask, and the automobile-brothel...
...Independents: "One of the greatest exhibitions of an instinct to be good divorced completely from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish...
...four greatest electricians in the country...
...Lamme is dead. How many of our 112,000,000 know his name? He was one of the four greatest electricians in the country. Edison, Tesla, and Steinmetz were the other three. Lamme and Steinmetz are gone...
...Athletically, all mankind is divided into three parts-the agile Americans, the hardy Finns, and the rest. And of these, the Americans are the greatest." -thus the World Spirit, musing over the official score-sheet of the eighth Olympic Games where it lay pinned on the Judges' Desk in Colombes Stadium, Paris...