Word: greatest
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Only seven members of the Supreme Court were on hand Monday when the nation's highest tribunal entered what promised to be one of its greatest years. With senate confirmation of Sherman Minton, however, and the recovery of Justice Douglas, the court will again be at full strength for the heavy work ahead...
Southpaw, 15-game winners Eddie Lopat (lost 10) and Tommy Byrne (lost 7) will probably pitch the third and fourth games. Lopat is cagey, Byrne fast, but both are erratic. Lopat was invaluable in the last weeks; Byrne's greatest contribution to the Yankees was in the first ten weeks of the season...
...forged the weapons and the axles and the cooking pots which had opened western America. It had made the steel girders of history's greatest surge of industrialism and the tools of a nation's factories. It boasted that it was the world's No. 1 producer of aluminum, tinplate, refractories, plumbing fixtures, lifting jacks, air brakes. It had armed a nation in two world wars...
...school opened, no one was more excited than handsome Dr. L. Dale Coffman, 44, its first dean. Said he: "[It is] the greatest founding since the University of Chicago Law School in this century." A onetime professor at the University of Nebraska, later a corporation lawyer with General Electric Co., and for the last three years dean of Vanderbilt University's law school, Coffman had good reason to be happy at his big premiere. As its chief academic attraction he had persuaded Roscoe Pound, retired dean of the Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence...
Even the best translation, John Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original...