Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's foreign affairs at a time when the country was facing a slow and perhaps agonizing battle for survival. The second Battle of Britain would not be as dramatic as the first. The skies over the Empire would not be as black as in Churchill's finest, darkest hour; but they would be a lasting grey. The uniquely delicate bonds and balances of the Empire were being strained and upset as never before...
...Vanzetti, attempts to discover the culprit in a murder for which his father was executed; on meeting the sentencing judge he completely besis him in what is almost a re-trial, but his discovery of the killer results in his own destruction. Often considered one of Anderson's finest works, "Winterset" was produced as a movie...
...said, "Gentlemen, I envy you. We have just come through an irregular war period. We are in a period of transition, and we are finding that irregular too. Harvard will not be comfortable next term as it used to be, but all of you will be working with the finest bunch of men the College has ever seen. As I say, I envy...
During the war, mass U.S. audiences had their first real chance to see some of the finest and some of the worst documentaries. Now that the war is over, and most documentary makers are wondering what next, the Film Library of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting the most imposing list of documentaries (over 100) ever assembled. The films range from early newsreels and the first documentary masterpieces (like Robert Flaherty's 24-year-old Nanook of the North} to Walt Disney's wartime educational films and samples of the Army and Navy...
...prospecting old diggings: ¶ Admiral Harold R. Stark, 1941 Chief of Naval Operations, admitted that he did not believe Pearl Harbor would be attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department and the Navy, which he accused of giving him insufficient information. ¶ A report by the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox...