Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ringling in one all-embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice in the fact that there now undoubtedly exists that "Greatest Show on Earth," as which every circus has billed itself from the time when the first tent rose, on the first lot. Mr. Ringling will continue, however, to operate his various shows as separate units...
...concise figure. That figure was 23.4%. It represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four structures built during August 1928 only three were being built during August 1929-a startling shrinkage in so basic an industry. Greatest decline, however (45%) was in New York; decrease outside the metropolis stood...
Langmuir's Comments. Retiring society president, General Electric's Dr. Irving Langmuir called this "the greatest chemical achievement of 1929." An American, Dennison, had predicted its accomplishment...
Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
Chesterton v. Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells...