Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labored over with the same industry as the productive with the resulting waste and inefficiency which might be expected. The English college, on the other hand, limits no man's opportunity by the stupidity of his class-mate. The best men are permitted and assisted to reach their greatest possible development; the less capable are allowed to enjoy several years of agreeable companionship and congenial study without the continual harassing of hour examinations, lectures, tests and what not. The individual seeks his level...
...seventh place goes to Debevoise, who caused the greatest upset of the season by defeating Dixon in the University tournament in January; and eighth to Douglas, a consistent Law School player from Princeton. J. D. Du Bois, ranking ninth, has played as first man on Team B all season and was a finalist in the recent University championship tournament...
...greatest example of multiple newspaper ownership in the country is the Scripps-Howard group, consisting of 26 dailies. Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard own and control this group. Most of their papers were established, not purchased, by them. Their circulation is 1,270,843 daily, and of all their papers 'only one publishes a Sunday edition-the Pittsburgh Press, acquired last year...
...however, produce political pressure on the Reserve to lower its rate. Even the Minneapolis Reserve Bank has a reserve ratio of almost 80%?a very high figure. But the Reserve officials evidently intend to feel their way cautiously, to adopt in part a policy of "watchful waiting." Their greatest fear is inflation; and with our huge unused gold reserves, it is something to be watched...
...Gallishaw is now studying at the University to become a writer. Already he has had a book published, "Trenching at Gallipoli" which is recognized as an authority on that disastrous campaign, one of the greatest blunders of the past war. Consequently, Mr. Gallishaw's intimate knowledge of the campaign should make his lecture doubly interesting...