Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States are concerned, Professor Elliott claims that "there is no serious threat of our being drawn into the conflict," that the immediate problem is planning a national policy for a long war. The greatest threat to the position of this country he feels lies in possible action by the Japanese navy in the Pacific, where it is essential that the United States maintain a balance of power in the Far East "in which it holds the balance...
...once remarked to a critic that if I were to name the four or five violinists whom I considered the greatest artists, he wouldn't recognize the names of more than one or two of them...
...Professor Kittredge of Harvard influenced my whole life; he was the greatest teacher I ever had," said Monty Woolley last night after his performance in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at the Colonial Theatre...
...hand, there's no doubt whatsoever about what's coming. When he hits a bass note, it stays hit--the result being a fine jump rhythm that literally pushes a band along. Hugues Panaissie, the famous French swing critic, has long ranked Fats right with Earl Hines as the greatest, not only in orchestra, but in solo work...
When I last heard Fats, he had three of the greatest men in the business playing for him in the persons of Eugene Cedric (tenor sax), Herman Autry (trumpet), and Albert Casey (guitar). Since then, Casey has joined Teddy Wilson's band, but all else remains as good...