Word: topping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three fellows run out into the middle of the street when traffic was stopped and take pictures of me. The most amusing incident of the whole afternoon occurred when a minister took one of the handbills and read till he came to the word Socialist which is near the top of the page. Then, handing it back to me, he said: 'Socialism! Young man, you should be in jail...
...risking injury to any of his players on the slippery turf of the practice field, Coach Horween took his football squad under shelter of the baseball cage for yesterday afternoon's session. The scheduled scrimmage had to be cancelled in favor of a dummy scrimmage, a signal drill at top speed, and a talk on the football rules by Coach Horween...
What U. S. politician could turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India...
...modest and a conservative gentleman, Mr. Smith does not give out pictures, interviews, discussions of topics of the day. He graduated from Yale in 1895, went into the Harris, Forbes organization, worked gradually to its top...
Though size may not have entered into Mr. Mitchell's calculations, he has driven his institution to the top in this respect. Ranked according to total resources, the ten largest banks in the world...