Word: longests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Illegal Trial? So the climax came to what was probably the longest criminal trial in U.S. history. It had begun on Jan. 17. For the defense: 35 witnesses, 429 exhibits. For the Government: 15 witnesses, 332 exhibits. The record: 5,000,000 words of testimony covered 21,157 pages. The cost: to the defense, at least $250,000; to the Government, some...
Only five of the 500 knew the answers to all twelve questions; every colonial official in the sampling flunked the test. One Frenchman thought that the Mississippi was the longest river in the French empire. Guesses on the empire's population ranged from 30 million to 300 million. A parliamentary undersecretary located the French Atlantic island of Marie Galante as "near Tahiti," which is in the Pacific...
...everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright silly. But since almost all of Irma's blunders turn out right in the end, the audience is left with the possibly comforting thought that stupidity is simply the longest way round to happiness...
Michigan saw the band, which made its longest trip up to that time, in 1938, when Harvard played at Ann Arbor. Help from the HAA and generous alumni sent the musicians, who up to 1937 had paid all their expenses out of their own pockets...
...rainy October afternoon in 1895, the Harvard football team engaged the United States Military Academy on the West Point Plains, beat the Cadets, 4 to 0, and thereby initiated one of the longest and most colorful series in Crimson gridiron history...