Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Montreal Maroons. Terrific shoulderers, the roughest, heaviest team in hockey, the Maroons still have such bruisers as Stewart, Dutton and Babe Siebert in their lineup...
...Power, and parity in submarines at roughly 88,000 tons. In the more ticklish category of cruisers the U. S. is asking 315,000 tons and Britain 339,000 but this too is supposed to represent "parity" because the U. S. cruiser fleet will have a larger proportion of heaviest 10,000-ton, 8-inch cruisers than the British...
...Pseudo-science ? the brain-weight theory of white superiority to the Negro. Scientists have exploded the theory that the heaviest brain is necessarily the most highly developed. But the idea persists in the popular mind...
...grown from a little store in the lower end of Manhattan Island to an international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...
...entering the selling or retail merchandise fields probably have to work somewhat harder and more constantly than in other fields. Saturday afternoon, for example, a holiday in many businesses, is one of the heaviest periods in retail sales work. On the other hand, the human contacts which retail merchandising affords and the general soundness and solidarity of the retail business affords a more definite and sure career than in some other fields. The pressure is constantly being put on the members of the training squads and junior executives to prepare themselves for larger and more remunerative positions...