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Word: largest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signatures were not compulsory, no cut and dried figures are available for comparison, but a rough estimate showed that the barbers, the largest single trade in the Square, were as divided about, political candidates as they are about long and short haircuts--they just couldn't make up their minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biddies Back Roosevelt in His Upset Victory Over Alf Landon in New Poll | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

Riverside Military Academy certainly qualifies as a "migratory" school with its two complete, school-owned and unencumbered plants-in Gainesville, Ga., for fall and spring and at Hollywood, Fla. for the winter. In addition, it is for the fourth consecutive year the nation's largest military preparatory school with an enrollment of more than 630 boys from 36 States and eight foreign countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...capture of Memphis by coming out in the open, handing Mr. Hammond his walking papers, admitting that any literate citizen among Memphis's 156,528 whites, 96,550 Negroes who wants to read a home-town paper must henceforth do so under the Scripps-Howard flag. Claiming "the largest circulation in the South," the Commercial Appeal brings Scripps-Howard 121,992 new daily readers, 138,124 new Sunday readers, to add to the Press-Scimitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Memphis Captured | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...formidable corporation called the Independent Grocers' Alliance of America. IGA is formidable because it is not only a capitalistic but an extremely efficient co-operative enterprise as well. It is an organ of enlightenment, a system of distribution, a father &mother to small grocers and the largest voluntary chain in the U. S. Last week 6,500 grocers in 44 states lighted candled birthday cakes in their windows to mark, proudly and with gratitude, IGA's tenth birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cooperative Grocers | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...said that Hoover was elected by the largest majority ever and went out by unanimous consent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY PLANS MOTOR CARAVAN | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

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