Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have ever known, I must comment on your references to him. It is true that he lost campaigns for Congress, for the Senate, and twice for the governorship. However, he was never appointed judge. He had served as solicitor general of the old western circuit, one of the largest in Georgia, before I was born. He was consistently elected to judicial office, including judge of the Superior Court, chief judge of the Court of Appeals, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, which position he occupied at the time of his death...
...nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125,861 local chapters) have shared as never before in the golden bounty of U.S. prosperity. Since 1947, overall membership in the Masonic order, biggest U.S. fraternity, has climbed 10% to 4,000,000; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, second largest, reports a husky 25% gain in new dues-paying brethren to a total of 1,200,000. From Calais, Me. to Elsinore, Calif., more than 20 million U.S. males are entitled to participate in the mysteries and handclasps of one lodge or more. Estimated total assets of all the orders...
...shoes) be increased 50%. The militia fired tear gas and wielded clubs. A worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed 750 trucks into action to provide transportation in Poland's second largest city (pop. 675,000), and banned the sale of vodka to prevent "real trouble...
...paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week, though the 86-year-old Dowager Duchess of Devonshire may live there for the rest of her days. The deal was by far the largest of its kind ever made. The 37-year-old duke, who had previously paid in more than $2,800,000, now thinks he can meet the rest of the tax without drastic liquidation. And he still holds Chatsworth, where he will continue to live with his family in a cottage...
...secular state in which 320 million Hindus and 40 million Moslems live in relative peace. Against all the predictions of the Blimps, and the warning of Winston Churchill that power was being turned over to "men of straw." Indian democracy has survived to hold the world's two largest free elections; and against the immensity of its problems, even to have survived was triumph...