Word: largest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest crowds of the House season turned out to see the game. The Leverett eleven went into the game on the crest of a four game streak, during which time they had not even been scored upon, and the Rabbits did not succumb without a struggle...
Atom Anatomy. The largest atom is only .00000001 inch in diameter, and many of the most important atoms handled by physicists are considerably smaller. An ancient Greek, Democritus, coined the word "atom" which means indivisible. For thousands of years this was a perfectly good name but for the past two decades, since the first atoms were sundered, it has been archaic...
...Plans were prepared for a $5,000,000 16-story skyscraper on Manhattan's Park Avenue to house Hunter College, largest women's college in the world...
...Largest single purchaser of textbooks in the U. S., Texas buys books for all elementary schoolchildren in the State, spends some $2,000,000 a year. Its "adoption" of a book means it will buy that book exclusively for five years. Of seventh-grade histories, it was estimated, Texas would purchase some $234,000 worth all told...
...that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined it in 1896 as a solicitor, Mr. Harrison nominated to succeed himself his operating vice president, Ernest Eden Norris. The election took about the same length of time as a flag whistle and the southeast's largest rail system got as its fourth president its first operating...