Word: zenith
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...large steamship slid alongside a Manhattan pier and disgorged four little ships-Thistle, Zenith, Echo, Betty. They were the British boats that will set their sails against U. S. craft beginning Sept. 6, for the International 6-Metre Yacht Trophy. The races will be held at Oyster Bay, L. I. under the auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club...
...Tribune and The Herald and Examiner, Chicago's best known*morning papers outdo one another. The Tribune arranged to broadcast programs of music, news and general information from the Zenith Edgewater Beach station (WJAZ). The Herald-Examiner (Hearst) has made arrangements to join with Sears Roebuck and Co. in a new station to be opened in April and to be known as WBBX. This station will give special attention to agriculture, weather, financial reports...
...domestic life, business and personal adventure. But the delight of ridiculing the vices of others makes the comics quite the most interesting feature to the populace; nothing is half so delicious as seeing A. Mutt revealed in all his shallow pretentiousness or Andy Gump annihilated at the very zenith of his unbearable pride and conceit...
That Premier Mussolini contemplated ending the dictatorship and risking his power upon the decision of the electorate, is meaningless. Fascism as a political theory is not really popular in Italy, but the Fascisti with Mussolini at their head are at the zenith of their popularity. The difference is that their means of acquiring power have not been condoned by a large number of Italians; but that the results obtained by them, from almost" every point of view, have been deserving of unstinted praise from the nation. By virtually discarding the outward accoutrements of his dictatorial power, Mussolini can disarm...
...support of a reaction against the so-called over-emphasis on athletics, particularly in football. Thus while crew at one end of the scale is falling into line, there is a feeling in some quarters that the power and responsibility of the coach in football have reached their zenith. It is unlikely that they will grow much more. But an attempt arbitrarily to hasten their decline, if, in fact, a decline is advisable, would be idle and harmful...