Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best record in the sprints, a field which includes A. E. French '29, T. E. Mason '30, and A. L. Watkins '31 should be anybody's race Harvard seems to have a pretty clear outlook in the longer runs and it is in these events that the greatest chance for victory lies...
Almost a decade ago the Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," ordered its correspondent in Moscow to present the following ultimatum to Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin: "You must abandon your censorship and guarantee freedom of expression, otherwise our correspondent will be withdrawn and so will the correspondents of other American newspapers, so that Russia will find herself without means of communication with the outer world." The rage into which Comrade Tchitcherin flew when he read these words was towering, to say the least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government...
Seasoned observers sympathized with the Tribune's irate editor, but pointed out that Soviet Russia is too big to be bluffed, even by the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The only practicable means of getting out Soviet news is that employed by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Day after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past...
...like myself was tempted, that he met his temptations and difficulties with only human resources, and that he lived on earth without sin. I believe that forgiveness of sin is essential to a right relationship with God and that life continues after death." Within the denominations, the Lutherans had greatest unity, agreed on 44 out of the 56 answers. Next most united were the Episcopalians who agreed on 25 answers. The least united were the Methodists, of whom Questioner Betts himself is one. Methodists agreed on only 11 of the 56 questions...
...than 108,000 units in the first three months of 1929, are scheduled for an April production of 45,000. Hudson enjoyed a record-breaking first quarter in 1929, earning $4,567,783 or $2.68 per share. Production included 1,585 cars sent abroad and 6,178 to Canada, greatest Hudson export mark. Plants are operating at capacity (1,900 cars daily) but the number of cars on hand and with distributors is below normal...