Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rideau! Asses! Jetes le dehors!" (Curtain! Enough! Throw him out!) shrieked the audience. The play was finished with the greatest difficulty...
MOSCOW ART THEATRE?The third appearance in Manhattan of the greatest repertory troupe...
...Marshal received 27 more votes for First Marshal than the man who was elected Second Marshal, because the latter had a few more total votes. Had the fourth candidate in this same election received four more total votes he would have received no marshalship although he got the second greatest number of votes for First Marshal and led his nearest competitor by 27 First Marshal votes. In the 1917 election a candidate lost the third marshalship by six total votes though he had 16 more First Marshal votes than the man who defeated him. Likewise...
From this point of view, every great man has been a failure, and must always be a failure The greatest men have been those whose ideals and conceptions have been generations, even centuries ahead of the ideals and conceptions of their contemporaries. It success is to consist in elevating humanity to the higher levels of the genius in his own single lifetime, there can never be a successful man. The minds of human beings develop steadily but slowly; the conception of a United States of America was impossible in the Middle Ages; the conception of a United States...
...Holy Father expressed the wish that "the greatest advantage should be gained by those Catholics who by the publication of newspapers and other writings illustrate, promote and defend Christian doctrine." He counsels that "they should confute errors and resist the wiles of perverse people, but in a way showing they are inspired by rectitude and especially by charity." To the work of extending the usefulness of the Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop...