Word: largest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition discovered three peaks over 14,000 feet, 19 over 10,000 feet, and 25 over 9,000 feet. They named one of the largest glaciers in the north for President-emeritus Lowell...
...world's largest exporter of horses destined to be eaten by others, the British Empire also leads in pointing out the iniquities of the horsemeat industry as conducted abroad after the beasts have been bought and paid for. Three years ago a staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they...
...Largest eaters of horsemeat in the U. S. are dogs, who get it chiefly in a can called Ken-L-Ration. Tastiest cuts for human consumption are the tenderloin, tongue, liver and hindquarters. Experts consider that if horses were bred like cattle the slight toughness of horsemeat, which is not so tough as venison, would be readily overcome. While not admitting ever to have cooked horsemeat, Brooklyn's Pratt Institute declared last week that the tender cuts should be broiled like beef. Less tender cuts, meat for the poorest of the poor, should be scored, pounded and marinated...
...large, Gothic Riverside Church, a place of worship for "all the disciples of Jesus," which he built for $4,000,000 and in which he installed Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. No less monumental was the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, to which Mr. Rockefeller was the largest contributor (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932 et seq.). That this survey, which found great need of interdenominational cooperation in foreign missions, was received "unenthusiastically" by the Northern Baptist Convention, its onetime President Charles Oscar Johnson was quick to recall last week in St. Louis. Added he: "If Mr. Rockefeller can get along...
...THAN A SHOW, BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. First-nighters were provided with a scale by which to judge the production as soon as they got their tickets, which were precisely nine times the normal size. When they took their seats in what is still the world's fourth largest theatre,* they received further premonition of the grandeur that was to come. But when the cylindrical curtain around the protruding ring-stage at last rose, result could only be described by a word from the lexicon of Jumbo's chief comic. Jimmy Durante: "Colossial...