Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie of all time"), young Bellhaven Behoover was valued at $1,000. But Mrs. Ilch said that, for Mrs. Hoover, "nothing was too good." Her idea was, of course, that Bellhaven Be hoover would now be First Dog of the Land...
...described "the greatest line of military weakness" of the U. S. as the line from Chesapeake Bay to Lake Erie. "Failure to hold that line would so divorce the manufacturing plants from the sources of raw material, would so separate those living in the Atlantic States from their food supplies as to virtually paralyze the nation...
...Navy admits, nay protests, that it is not the world's greatest. In point, that is, of size, though never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...
...game in 1914 was the first Harvard-Yale game in the Yale Bowl, and the Crimson eleven came off with the honors, 36 to 0. Late in this tilt, it is stated, the onlookers were treated to the greatest exhibition of generalship ever seen on a football field. It was Harvard's ball within drop-kicking distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy...
Yale, however, appears to be far worse off than we are. She has one of the country's greatest offensive backs in Garvey and one of the best defensive backs in the country in Decker; yet both are in crippled condition. Her attack lacks deception, and she does not seem to be "right", either physically or mentally...