Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isabel Wolfe, daughter of a widely respected cotton planter. Bernard entered commerce as a glassware clerk, studied law and medicine, graduated from C. C. N. Y., of which he is now a trustee. When he visited Wall Street and made daily history there he acquired the reputation of "greatest speculator of our generation." Phrases such as "Baruch led the shorts today," or "Baruch, the well-known plunger," appeared regularly in the press...
...remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...
...view is all that is really necessary to convince a fair-minded and solvent individual of the justice of the claim. The means adopted for paying the general obligation may in some cases be inconvenient or disliked, but the obligation remains: the method has been devised to suit the greatest number...
...present tendencies and they have not hesitated to remind the educational leaders of the country of the problem which they must meet sometime and probably in the not very distant future. It is distinctly an event to read in the annual report of the head of one of the greatest of American universities, and one famous for its athletic achievements, such a paragraph as this...
...greatest domestic problem before our Nation today is "Shall the Constitution of the United States be obeyed?" The Scofflaw says...