Word: largest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice of the officials of the meet has fallen on New York not because it is the largest city in the country, but principally because it is central for the competing colleges. A games at the score sheet of last Saturday's meet will reveal how many entrants come from the New York district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed...
Last year in Symphony Hall, the two colleges debated the proposition, "Resolved, That Alfred E. Smith is eminently qualified for the presidency," before an audience of 3500 people, the largest crowd ever to attend an intercollegiate debate in New England...
...President Coolidge did receive, last week, a telegram worded exactly as above except that THE DENVER POST was substituted for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the self-descriptive blurb was LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE MISSOURI RIVER AND THE PACIFIC COAST. The telegram was signed by that dark, daring Desperate Desmond of Journalism, Frederick G. Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, onetime riverboat gambler...
Last week came announcement of the long-rumored merger of Guaranty Trust and National Bank of Commerce (TIME, Feb. 11). Probably a skyscraper will soon be erected on the joint site. With Guaranty Trust already fourth largest and National Bank of Commerce ninth largest among U. S. banks, the merger-bank will pass National City and Chase National, will stand as largest U. S. bank, as first U. S. bank with assets approximating two billions. From the standpoint of capital and surplus the merger-bank will be also world's largest. From the standpoint of deposits and total assets, London...
...might have been expected, the Yale game brought about the largest number of permanent disqualifications, 23 men losing their privilege of ever applying for tickets again. Nine men were permanently barred as the result of violations in their use of Dartmouth tickets, while the West Point game added 12 more to this list. Not in all cases have violaters of the ticket code at Harvard been permanently black listed. In some 50 cases other penalties of temporary black listing varying from one to eight years have been meted...