Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugo Stinnes is undoubtedly the most powerful man in Germany, if not in the continent of Europe. His wealth is said to be far greater than that of Henry Ford. He is the greatest coke-king in Europe, he is one of the chief oil magnates of that continent, he is a steel tsar, a hotel emperor, a shipping lord, a publisher, and a hundred other things...
...greatest educational statesman of this generation...
...been in Egypt all Winter, along with many other savants, agreed to act as mediator and started negotiations, but without much optimism. Dr. Breasted, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, is internationally respected as one of the two or three greatest authorities on Egypt. He has written many standard works; his Ancient Times is known to thousands of schoolboys and laymen as fascinating reading as well as sound history. If any man deserves to succeed in this task, it is Dr. Breasted...
...cardinal purple has been worn by many of the noblest men who ever lived and by some of the greatest rascals. Richelieu was the Cardinal-Duke, as was Cesare Borgia; de Rohan was the Cardinal-politician ;Reginald Pole, the Cardinal -man -without -a-country; Wolsey and Mazarin, the Cardinal-statesmen ; Newman, the Cardinal-poet ; and "in the person of James Gibbons the full flower of spiritual princeliness came to its blossom...
...Beethoven the "greatest composer in musical history...