Word: largest
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...school winning the largest number of points, each victory counting as one point, will receive the shield offered by the Athletic Association, and the individual winner and runner-up will each receive cups. As they stand at present, the scores of the schools are: Andover 9, Exeter 5, Milton 3, Newton High 3, Boston Latin 2. Both of the St. Mark's representatives were defeated in the first round...
Close on the heels of the start of the greatest battle of history, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has introduced the largest budget by far that Great Britain has ever faced. With a national debt now standing at the huge total of over thirty billions, England is now preparing to lay on herself this additional burden of some fourteen billion dollars for the coming year. After three and one-half years of war, the Chancellor has announced that the financial condition of the country is more than good enough to stand the added strain...
...John Harvard" and the "Veritas," the two largest of the University's steam launches, will not be used on the Charles this season, except in the event of the first crew race with Yale taking place here. Owing to the comparatively small size of the crew squads, and the need for economizing in every particular, the University crew management has decided to use only the two motor launches. So far this season, Coach Haines has been following his crews regularly in the smaller of the two. The larger and faster boat is now being put in commission...
Word has been received from France of the death in action on the Western Front of three more members of the University and of the capture by the Germans of a fourth. A fifth has recently died of pneumonia at Camp Meade. This is the largest single casualty list of Harvard men that has yet appeared...
...with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which it can juggle Norway out of her colonization prospects with a view to developing the island's coal beds...