Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WAAB was not penalized, but the decision was a strong hint that the FCC could revoke licenses whenever it thought broadcasters were slanting the news.* Radio's biggest guns began hammering away at the decision as an unwarranted shackling of freedom of speech. To FCC's defense hurried the legions of the C.I.O. and A.F.L. and assorted left-wingers, who argued that broadcasting was a public trust and should, therefore, be impartial...
This week the International Missionary Council, biggest organization in the Protestant and orthodox missions field, proudly announced some cheerful statistics. The number of practicing Protestants in missionary areas (120 countries and island groups outside the English-speaking countries and Europe) has risen from 6,517,697, when the council first officially counted the flock in 1925, to 25,341,283 in 1948, an impressive increase...
Dunster House doesn't have a pool, but it does boast running cold water. Sunday evening all studying came to a stop while "D" entry engaged in one of the biggest water fights in recent history...
...Foster '49, an Academy Award winner for his camera work on the Antarctic documentary, "Secret Land." And in place of running dialogue, an original musical score has been completed by a promising local composer. Yoder is highly enthusiastic about this music, and terms it one of the movie's biggest assets...
...Gregory Peck's eye infection, but M-G-M found its effects painfully clear: the moviemaking machinery had grown so complicated that an actor's inflamed eye was enough to inflict a year's postponement (and thus tie up $1,000,000 already spent) on "the biggest picture of all time...