Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good fortune to meet the new Pope. However, I did see him once from the window of a train. He impressed me as one of the finest looking men I have ever seen; his face is like chiseled bronze. In the execution of his papal duties, one of his greatest aids will be his find physical condition...
...from a collective cold, seems to be enmeshed in an attack of the blues due to last at least a week. For with Woody Herman and "The Band That Plays The Blues" at the Kirkland House dance tonight, and Jack Teagarden, considered by many to be one of the greatest soloists in jazz, coming to Dunster House next Friday, it looks as though we are going to hear lots of the music that Paul Whiteman says "is the basis of all Jazz...
Each voter may check two names on the list of candidates; the nominee receiving the greatest number of votes will gain the Presidency, while the runner-up will become vice-President. The nominees are: William H. Daughaday, Langdon B. Gilkey, Robert J. Glaser, Nelson Miles, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Joseph S. Stern, Jr., and Benjamin Wilcox...
...first prize of $100, a second prize of $50, six presentation copies of Carl Van Doren's "Benjamin Franklin," and three copies of "Builders of the Bay Colony" by Samuel E. Morrison, Professor of History, will be awarded to the students who pass with greatest distinction the second prize examination in American History to be given on April 15 at 2 o'clock in Harvard Hall...
...little over a decade the Oregon Trail carried "the greatest migration in history since the Children of Israel went to the Promised Land." In fiction, the old Oregon Trail is still well plodded. But far fewer novels than pioneers have come through alive. Outstanding survivor was H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn. Archie Binns's The Land Is Bright is another...