Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...
Coach Brown's greatest coaching problem is still the selection and development of a stroke man with the smoothness and stamina to guide the Crimson shell over the four mile course at New London in the annual Harvard-Yale epic...
...problem of how much Germany shall pay in reparations?incomparably the greatest fiscal issue of the age?seemed in a fair way to be solved last week by a one-time plowboy from Van Hornesville, N. Y., and a son of a Danish mechanic who used to repair typewriters in an upstate New York town...
...Mother England's intimacy with the potent little yellowmen of Nippon. Due primarily to the influence of Canada, New Zealand and Australia? all leery of Japanese immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
...chair which Chemist Gordon occupies at Johns Hopkins was given by Manhattan Lawyer Francis Patrick Garvan, chairman of the Johns Hopkins Chemical Foundation, onetime (1900-10) Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. He, no chemist, was last week given a medal by the American Chemical Society for being "greatest lay patron of chemistry in the United States" (see p. 48). Chemistry Patron Garvan was also among those who have given a scholarship fund ($1,000 annually) to help the Johns Hopkins plan. The scholarships are to be established in every State. Other contributors so far include: Firestone Tire & Rubber...