Word: mightiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overcoming the effect of the torque. The propeller sucked something up from the water and bent itself, an unforseen event. Later, leisurely, safely and, if possible, secretly Lieutenant Williams was to actually fly his Mercury along Chesapeake Bay before taking her to England for his mightiest air exertion...
...Square. The day grew hot, the streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...
Brief is the glory of tallest buildings, longest boats, mightiest cannon, similar man-made objects which for a little while are the superlatives of their kind. With the liner Bremen, world's third longest, just starting on her maiden voyage (see page 21) came last week the announcement that United States Lines, Inc., was planning two new liners longer even than the 938 foot Bremen. They will each be approximately 950 feet long, said Joseph Sheedy, who is operating U. S. Lines, Inc., for Paul Chapman. Each will accommodate 4,000 passengers...
There was a great folding of silk pajamas and brushing of well cut suits in Paris last week. John Pierpont Morgan, mightiest of U. S. bankers, was leaving town. The nations which fought the World War had agreed at last how the staggering costs and damages were to be paid by the loser Germany. Mr. Morgan's financial prestige and wisdom were no longer required. He gave power-of-attorney to his partner and alternate, Thomas W. Lamont, and boarded the Mauretania for home...
...Mightiest of Fair structures will be the Hall of Science building. An enormous children's village will be built, as children themselves might build it, with such necessities as huge sand piles and a good place to roller-skate...