Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Davison Rockefeller Jr., nursing a strained and stiffened right arm, learned that he had become the heaviest taxpayer in the U. S. on suburban real estate. His grounds at Tarrytown, North Tarrytown, Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant Townships, N. Y., were assessed at $5,588,050, calling for annual taxes of approximately $137,000. It was in his private gymnasium at Tarrytown that Mr. Rockefeller strained his right arm. He was playing volley ball against his 16-year-old son, Winthrop...
...regular nine in hitting. Early in the season, the problem of filling the third outfield position was considered one of the most serious facing Coach F. G. Mitchell, but Hardie, besides showing no weakness as a fielder, has blossomed into a first rate hitter, and is one of the heaviest sluggers on the squad. At present, Hardie is far in the lead among the extra-base hitters, with four triples...
...expected the Rangers to win; they were facing many handicaps. Light and fast, they had to play the toughest, heaviest team in hockey, the Maroons of Montreal. It was hard to see how flashy skaters like Frank Boucher, Ranger centre, or Bill Cook and his brother Bun, the wings, could stand being bumped around by checks like Siebert, Button, Smith. The Rangers were playing all their games away from home. In the second game their goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads...
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, failing to hit, wrote to New York for his favorite bat, Big Bertha, the heaviest bat used in the big leagues (48 ounces). Big Bertha has 31 notches in the handle, each notch for a home run. Ruth broke his bat Betsy in June when there were twelve notches...
...circumstances and their development are thoroughly simple. Mary Brewster is the last descendant of an aristocratic family, her ancestors having created such a place for themselves in their little Cape Cod community that her heaviest responsibility is to live up to her name. Since she is the heroine, it is only right that she be willing to take the artificial position lightly. She goes to work quite calmly and the town talks. Her best friend and adviser is a fine man, but not in her social plane. She is too generous to care for that. One knows at the beginning...