Word: deadliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philosopher Theodor Lessing, shot two summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
...DITMARS BACK; NO BUSHMASTER. It was, therefore, a metropolitan milestone last week when word flashed from the Caribbean that the 25-year search of Dr. Raymond Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's famed reptile man. was over at last. His bushmaster, a great snake whose bite is the deadliest in the American tropics, had been caught by a white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow (12 ft.), it behaved characteristically by refusing to eat. But it drank copiously, gave every indication of a willingness to bite Dr. Ditmars...
...subtly blackmailing crooked politicians. But even without these groups smiling Prefect Chiappe still had enormous personal popularity throughout Paris. No sooner was his removal announced than roars for his restoration were heard. Rioting crowds interlarded "Vive Chiappe!" with cries of "Voleurs!" "Assassins!", saved their most savage attacks, their deadliest brickbats for the blue-clad Garde Mobile, a section of the French constabulary that was invented and organized by Prefect Chiappe himself...
...autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at Cambridge. Mass, last week (see p. 50) Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reported that Institute researchers confirmed the widely accepted theory that this pathway is traveled by one of mankind's deadliest enemies-the virus of infantile paralysis...
When the year's fatalities in aviation are reckoned up it will be found that two of the deadliest crashes of 1933 obliterated 15 persons who, in all likelihood, had never been in an airplane in their lives. Last spring a transport plane carrying a pilot and two passengers into Oakland, Calif. crashed into a suburban cottage, set it afire, burned ten groundlings to death (TIME, April 3). Last week Lieut. George R. Johnson, an aerial photographer whose discoveries in the high Andes of Peru were world famed, took off from Red Bank, N. J. with an observer...