Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fallon case was loosely called "the greatest law suit in history" because: rail rates are fixed by the I. C. C. to allow the carriers a profit. The amount of profit depends on valuation. For 15 years the I.C. C. has been tentatively valuing U. S. rail properties. I. C. C. valuations have generally been on the principle of original costs, plus improvements, less depreciation. The carriers have contended for valuations on the basis of reproduction at present price levels ("current reproduction value"), less depreciation. In 1920 the I. C. C. valued U. S. railroads at approximately 19 billion dollars...
...will be directed against the par of each hole on their own course. A player will receive one point for a par, two points for a birdie (one under par), and three points for an eagle (two under par). At the end of the match the player having the greatest number of points will win the match against the opposing player of corresponding ranking on the other team...
...decided increase in this event which has been an annual fixture in the Harvard rowing season for the past few years. All of the events scheduled in the week's program have had a larger number of contestants than in any previous year with the wherry race drawing the greatest number of entrants...
...Tokyo lately, 400 university students were asked by the house committee of an English-speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...
...perhaps the greatest source of indifference on the Harvard scene is the general and recognized futility of any other attitude toward the existing academic order. Harvard is traditionally and in point of fact the triumphant example of a dominant administration. Nowhere in the world is it possible to hear the word yes so loudly, so frequently or so unctuously pronounced. In University Hall, in the lecture room, in the editorial offices of "The CRIMSON" criticism of university policies is, not only unknown, but would probably create something akin to panic...