Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognize the Post-Impressionists. The painting is an excellent example of the artist's ex-treme simplification of form, his strong outlines, his vivid blues, greens, oranges. Since the death of Renoir, Matisse has been generally ranked by advanced aesthetes of the Clive Bell school as the greatest painter of France-and therefore, of the world...
...enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only to the boxes but to what we call in England the pits and galleries. 'Oedipus Rex' is the greatest play ever written,--and, incidentally it has in it the greatest part...
...third. In addition credit was given on a similar basis to each dormitory for its representation on the football and soccer teams, the only forms of organized athletics open to Freshmen in the fall. It was this factor which gave Smith the championship, for Smith had the greatest number of football and soccer numeral men, and Gore the least. As a result, in the final ranking of the various dormitories, Smith comes first with 30 points, Gore second, with 27 and Standish third, with...
...Percy Sykes is perhaps the greatest living authority on Persia. From 1888 to the close of the World War he was in Persia or its neighbor, India, engaged in British army work and in the study of the country...
...would be interesting to know just how the fines have been allocated. For there was probably not a single alleged error for which it is impossible to find plausible justification. Numberless expressions condemned by the purists of today can be found in the greatest classics written in the English language. After all, is it not a sign of intelligence rather than the reverse to use slang? For it is a well worn platitude that the slang of today is the speech of tomorrow; even the majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness...