Word: highest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of copper last week reached its highest point in the last nine years. Copper for export was quoted at 18¼¢ per pound, domestic copper at 18¢. Copper had been steady at around 15¢ since October...
...Italian correspondent, a passenger on that ship has given to the world, in good straightforward newspaper style, the story of that fearful trek northward. The Soviet enemies of humanity are revealed as men brave in the performance of the highest duty laid on man, and the alternate hope and despair that filled their hearts as they searched the dreary wastes, week after week, find an answer in the reader, so simply and graphically is the tale told...
Thus by a finely drawn and probably unique distinction the highest executive office in Czechoslovakia is held in trust for a sick...
...story concerned Le Monsieur. He is America's greatest monsieur, and so there are times when his awful name may not even be mentioned. One of those times was last week when details of Le Monsieur's embarkation were being arranged between 23 Wall St.* and the highest U. S. official of the Cunard Line. On that momentous morning some smart, insidious Frenchman must have gleaned among excited, thrilled Cunard employes his impression that the following telephone conversation took place...
Reason: while Masaryk and Benes were working for Czechoslovak independence in Allied countries, during the War, Svehla remained in what now is Czechoslovakia but then was Austria, superintending from within the struggle for independence which Masaryk and Benes carried on from without. Such a man deserves the highest, most exceptional honor ? which he received last week. Always close-mouthed and secretive, Dr. Svehla probably was glad that the world press almost totally ignored his passing, last week...