Word: highest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been explained that Mr. Hoover longed to visit La Paz but did not like to step on Chilean soil, as would have been necessary, before paying his respects to Chile's highest officials at Santiago. The Bolivians had come to him after requesting permission from Chile to travel through what used to be Bolivia's corridor to the sea, the long-disputed Tacna-Arica district at the juncture of Bolivia, Chile & Peru...
...right to select its chairman by its own vote. They adduced in support of this view a precedent of at least three years immediately preceding 1925, where this was done. My point of view was based on a four years precedent, namely that the person receiving the highest number of votes should become chairman...
Professor P. W. Bridgman '04 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory has recently perfected an apparatus for achieving the highest pressures that have ever been artificially produced...
...Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking...
...reel will also be shown of a tour on skils of Mont Rosa, the highest mount in Switzerland. The performance takes place in the Living Room of the Union on Sunday night and will begin at 7.30 o'clock. It is under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Union and is open to all members of both organizations...