Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blooded animals, such as birds and mammals, have hair and feathers which help to maintain a fairly fixed bodily heat. Even this changes, however; in the space of twenty-four hours, a man's temperature can rise or fall 20 degrees. "And this fact," said Professor Cannon, is the greatest of all reasons against Professor Davis' new industrial day. If we got up at 3 o'clock in the morning, the day's industry would start off with a very bad four hours...
...Young Mr. Davison is the elder son. of the late Henry P. Davison, famed partner of J. P. Morgan, and head of the Red Cross, founder of the Bankers Trust Co., one of the greatest figures in American financial history. Trubee Davison graduated from Yale, was an aviator in the War until injured, studied at Columbia Law School, became Chairman of the General Laws Committee of the New York legislature, is connected with the law firm of White & Case...
...limitations of nation or race. With the destroyed churches and educational institutions. rebuilt in Tokyo, and St. Luke's working in coöperation, we shall be playing no small part in the worldwide task of restoring the peace and tranquillity which is the world's greatest need...
...fashionable month of August in fashionable Deauville, a horse called Epinard made his debut, winning the Prix Yacowlef. Since then he has gone from triumph to triumph until today he is talked of as Europe's premier horse. His greatest achievement was capture of the Stewards Cup at Goodwood, England, after which King George sent for M. Pierre Wertheimer, his Parisian owner, to extend personal congratulations...
...covered with an inch of water. The harm done to the scenery cannot be estimated until it dries out. "If it warps," said Professor G. P. Baker '87 when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, "it will be destroyed, but I cannot tell yet just what will happen. By the greatest piece of luck all the scenery for our coming play next week was removed yesterday to Agassiz House...