Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest artistic value are five of the seven extant Mantegnas, with two impressions of the Battle of the Sea-Gods, and Poliainolo's Battle of Naked Men, together with the drawing...
...Louis Silvers, the producer, and the other judges, reached their decision only after the greatest difficulty. Mr. Silvers said of the decision: "The plays submitted this year reach a higher average of excellence than have any plays submitted since I have been connected with the Pudding. It was no disgrace to lose...
...Wesson's system of grouping, there is room for criticism on the ground that he has given undue attention to the importance of social divisions just as Mr. Lamont may perhaps have over-stressed the importance of the school background. Without a doubt both these phenomena are of the greatest importance, but after all they are merely different symptoms of the same general situation. The possibility of dividing up Harvard into small social groups and of discovering the precise school affiliations of each group is infinite...
Retorted Hackett in a letter to the same publication: "Unfortunately Tilden considers himself not only the greatest singles player, but also the greatest doubles player. . . . He absolutely fails to understand the great fundamental of the doubles game which is position play. . . . The Davis Cup Committee is responsible for results. . . . Tilden was believed capable of playing the doubles match, in spite of an atrocious performance in the 1922 Davis Cup Doubles. The fact that he chose to park his intelligence outside the stadium was naturally unexpected by any of the committee...
...Register will not be ready for distribution until after the Christmas holidays, comes as a great disappointment to those who have subscribed to it this year many of them on the verbal understanding that it would be delivered before the Yale game. Naturally enough the Register is of greatest value during the early months of the college year and mere business policy, if nothing else, would seem to dictate its publication as early as possible during that period. But the fact remains that this year, as more than once in the past, it has appeared at an unreasonably late date...