All the same, it must be said that some of the greatest American presidents cannot easily be classified as religious men.
Football historians and fans still talk about this legendary team as one of the greatest American football teams in history.
Roosevelt was the greatest American president since Lincoln, his colossal abilities tested by personal illness, economic catastrophe and world war.
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But the collection's strength is American painting to 1945, and it boasts one of the greatest American landscapes ever painted, Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara" (1857).
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The culture wars have reached the greatest American event of all.
Along with Rowell, there was Conrad Anker, one of the greatest American mountain climbers, and Jimmy Chin, a Wyoming-based climber and photographer with a reputation for steadfastness.
Remember the Greatest American Hero, the A-Team, and 21-Jump Street?
As King works up to the mighty peroration of the greatest American speech of the 20th century, his cadences continue to rise and fall, going higher each time to signal his passion for the subject.
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Neither did he choose to put it on display in the Smithsonian, where this likeness of the greatest honorary American could have been enjoyed and revered by the rest of us.
When Katherine Graham died, Mary Lou Forbes became the undisputed greatest American newspaperwoman.
It is, in the greatest of American traditions, an offshoot of Christianity that has taken on its own distinctly American sentiments and mythology.
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I've heard people say Michael Moore is the greatest living American.
Not long after the species' greatest champion, the American zoologist Dian Fossey, was killed in Rwanda in 1985, there were fewer than 300 of the giant primates left in the wild.
The global clean-energy race represents one of the greatest challenges for American leadership in a generation, and now is a critical moment.
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Andy was also unlucky to have immediately followed the greatest stretch of American tennis in the history of the sport, because doing so raised the expectations of American tennis and sports fans unrealistically skyward.
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Warm and intimate, his largely acoustic and usually spare arrangements are a tribute to what Ward sees as the greatest era for American music: the 1950s and early '60s, when singers like Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison infused country-rooted pop with honesty and romance.
These principles hark back to the things that made the American economy the greatest in the world in the years before the Fed: the Constitution and the gold standard.
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And I'm sure he will discuss with the leaders who are here ways that perhaps the House can be compelled to take action on the issues that are of greatest importance to the American people.
This is the greatest mystery in recent American politics if you ask me.
The retail behemoth, which grew to dominance through a strategy of serving lower- to middle-income customers, is one of the greatest success stories in American business history.
Low-cost lodging chains are one of the greatest innovations of the American free-enterprise system, providing American families affordable places to stay during their travels that are also safe, clean and fun.
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Chris Richey: We're biased, but we think the greatest sin in modern American stock investing is the fact that both U.S. individual and institutional investors are typically over-exposed to and over-diversified in the U.S. market while being significantly under-exposed to International stock markets.
And this time of year, the weather is quite outstanding, actually, and we're all looking forward to go there and run on Prefontaine's trail during the day, perhaps visit the site where he unfortunately died, and then go to just a track meet in the evening, which I'm quite confident will be the greatest track meet ever held on American soil, bar the Olympics, I guess.
Answer: the almost trance-inducing power of that greatest of American sporting events, the Super Bowl.
They wrote screenplays for several MGM musicals, from "Good News" to "The Bandwagon" to "Singing in the Rain, " which the American Film Institute named the greatest movie musical of all time.
And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productive capacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and their happiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.
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In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history.
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Back in the Greatest Generation years, the American Dream was to own a car and a house and have a life long job that would allow you to afford those material goals.
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