Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close of the regular three 15-minute periods found the teams deadlocked at 1-1. An extra five-minute session was called, and then another, but the Blue defense held off the repeated assaults of the Crimson forwards, led by Captain George Owen '23, one of the greatest hockey players to don a skate in a Crimson uniform...
...made unconvincing by halting qualification. If the painting is as bad as Mr. Pachs says it is, there is nothing to be gained by holding it up as a master work of a great painter. Undoubtedly the most conspicuous work of art in Harvard College, it has potentially the greatest chance of influencing the taste of Harvard...
...inviolate. Other notable absentees from the New Orleans meeting were Mississippi's Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller, who, in the course of winding up his administration, punctuated the week by saying: "The greatest danger that confronts us . . . is the result of avarice on the part of our 'best people...
...London famed H. Gordon Selfridge, rich U. S. proprietor of England's first and greatest department store, said, addressing London's Master Printers' Association: "I shall never be quite happy until I have a really good newspaper in London. If any one of you has a good newspaper you want to sell at a very low price, I shall be pleased to take it over or. talk the matter over with...
...attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...