Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this his especial pursuit for several years, and he was particularly fortunate last summer in securing a very valuable private library in Portugal. This makes the Harvard collection a close rival to that of the King of Portugal in historical treasures, and in early Portuguese literature, while for the greatest of Portuguese writers, Camoens, Harvard's preeminence is said now to be secure...
...appearances, and Emma, Lady Hamilton, saved Nelson from seeming more than human Mr. Husband's collection brought to Harvard last October fifty letters and documents signed by Nelson, and half as many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English seamen. Other documents, some of them of out-standing importance, have already begun to add themselves to those brought together by Mr. Husband as a nucleus for what is certain to become in time a great collection on Naval History...
...cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which its age* and dignity warrant. It is frequently hinted that many members of the Institut are elected for political reasons; some of France's greatest men have never been chosen...
...spoke: "I am 78 years old?it is really a little late to think of me." The next choice, Composer Paul Dukas, protested that the Institut was making fun of him. So, finally, the Institut turned to the man whom many regard as, next to Pole Paderewski the greatest French composer?Maurice Ravel...
England's august Manchester Guardian has flatly called this German work "the greatest of all war books.' It moves in space, not in time. The interest of the scene completely dwarfs the interest of the story...