Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their deepest air raid yet made into the Indies, Japanese planes attacked Koepang and shipping south of there in the strait between Timor and the small Island of Semaoe. There was said to have been no damage or casualties...
...when war came at last, the U.S. suddenly realized that its vast new industry had not prepared it for war at all. It was still just another industry, a peripheral hubbub, an invasion of the economy whose deepest salient was 17%. When it entered the war the U.S. still had an economy. It did not have what its enemies have: a total war machine...
...most glamorous convention, U.S. industry voiced its deepest hopes and fears last week-just in time, before Japan put an end to talk. The 46th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was the best attended Congress (over 5,000) in N.A.M. history. It was also the first N.A.M. Congress in almost a decade whose deliberations seemed in step with the times...
Pushkin, who wanted to be a Byron and died in a bourgeois duel, uncovered Russia's deepest melancholy in Boris Godunov, its worst superficialities in Eugene One gin. Tolstoy need not have written the great length of War & Peace to portray the best Russia; his typical common Russian, the soldier Karatasv, stands "an unfathomable, rounded-off and everlasting personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth." Glinka's Ruslan and Liudmila sang the gay folk tunes; Tchaikovsky's Pathetique caught in single chords all the national sadness...
...therefore, with the deepest regret that we learn of the suspension of the Smith "Tatler" because of an article printed in its October issue which offended the college maids and waitresses. We do not feel that a college should have the power to crack down on a publication for any reason less serious than arson or murder...