Word: largest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he died within seven years, Louis Pasteur was wrong. For around his tomb, which stands in the largest of the three Institute buildings, moves a crowd of busy scientists who are so passionately devoted to Pasteur's ideals of free criticism and painstaking experiment that his lifetime has really been projected into the future. Many of his successors still use his old furniture, work with his old instruments. And janitor of the Institute is old Joseph Meister. "I shall see always Pasteur's good face focused on me," he tells Institute visitors...
...became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank in a series of stockholders' suits (TIME, April 26, 1937), and in handling Mr. Hearst's financial affairs he has worked in close harmony with the Chase, Hearst's largest banking creditor...
...Largest in the U. S., it covers 1,250,000 Texas acres (almost twice as large as Rhode Island), is valued conservatively...
Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...
Pugilists from House, Yard, and Graduate schools will turn out today for the annual University boxing tournament in the Indoor Athletic Building. According to Henry Lamar, fisticuff mentor, 49 men have signed up, the largest group of entries in the last ten years...