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Word: greatest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, of which it is hard to speak moderately. Playing the Chopin B minor sonata, a Bach prelude and fugue, Schumann's Symphonic Studies, and Balakirev's Islamey, he proved himself to be a skilled pianist and musician, truly worthy of being classed with the greatest. His playing of the Bach fugue drew enthusiasm even from the most skeptical, who were...

Author: By A. S. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/11/1923 | See Source »

...present there are only two American cardinals ? Archbishops O'Connell of Boston and Dougherty of Philadelphia. The first American cardinal was John McCloskey of New York. The greatest was James Gibbons of Baltimore. The other two were Archbishop Farley of New York, predecessor of Archbishop Hayes? and Mgr. Falconio, Apostolic delegate to Washington, a naturalized American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardinals | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...Church of England from Canterbury to the uttermost parts of the Commonwealth. It has frequently been said that the dream of his life is that the Church of England, so sane, so sensible, so "rightly insistent on moral earnestness," shall become, with the growth of the British Commonwealth, the greatest of all Christian churches?more catholic than Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canterbury | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...widely believed in England and elsewhere that from this meeting will spring other meetings of more serious religious import, and that before the close of the 20th Century there will come some union, or at least some common working agreement, between the three greatest liturgical Churches of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canterbury | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

Frank Morris, California author: "Johan Bojer, Norwegian writer stopping at the Whitcomb Hotel, San Francisco, stated that in his opinion I am the world's greatest novelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

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