Word: farthest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Central China. It ended in the founding of a republic. Last week, as if timing its action to the anniversary, the Chinese Army announced one of the greatest victories of the Chinese War: Chinese troops had at last hammered their way into the Yangtze River city of Ichang, farthest point of Japanese penetration...
...battle in which Ickes is arrayed against Leland Olds of the Federal Power Commission on one side and all the sponsors of the Regional Valley Authorities on the other. In his speech, dedicating the Tacoma power substation to J. D. Ross, the late public power pioneer, he hit the farthest north any New Deal figure has come in programming the Administration's future power policy...
Being a foreigner and imbued, as I am, with an unsuspecting credulity, the farthest I would go with any other language is assiduously to pronounce it in the way it is spelt . . . . and thereby suffer a great many humiliations at the hand of the studied mispronunciation of the English language...
...Honest Harold" found a simple and paingiving answer: he awarded all identically bid contracts to the bidder located farthest from the proposed project. This automatically upped the winner's transportation costs. The Government gained nothing; but the winner had greater expenses...
First Pause. The Germans' first push, after an advance of 355 miles to the farthest point, halted for several days. This could be attributed to Russian counterattacks, to the fixed defenses of the Stalin Line, to nasty weather, to the number of prisoners the Nazis had taken, to continuing resistance behind the German lines-particularly in the Bialystok-Minsk area...