Word: topped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...
...Hard-plugging Herbert Hoover toiled in Chicago last week, conferring, dining, planning with top Midwest GOP conservatives, left two impressions: 1) he will be "available" in 1940, 2) he would prefer Tom Dewey in the vice presidential role...
...Justice Tucker declared himself "satisfied" that the Viscount never "contractually" promised to support the Princess, disparaged much of her evidence as "nebulous and unreliable." The Court then dismissed the case against Lord Rothermere, ordered Princess Stephanie to pay costs, which in a British case of this kind, with top-price lawyers, might run to some...
...spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering, it would hold out the promise of a good shaking up at the hands of a top-notch engineering organization...
...first year of king Franklin I's reign in 1933 the Crimson produced a 19 to 6 triumph but went into hibernation for the next three years, those marked by the presence of an end named Kelley at New Haven as the Ellis were on the top end of 14 to 0, 14 to 6, and 14 to 13 scores...