Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamburg, patriotic Heinrich Hagenbeck, director of one of the world's greatest zoos, announced that the zoo's elephants will soon replace tractors on German farms, that its camels were being trained to pull wagons. All other Hagenbeck animals, except a pair of each species, were being shipped to Russia. Said Herr Hagenbeck, who gave up his car, took a Shetland pony to work: at the war's end Bolsheviks promised to return the animals or replace them with "rare Russian or Asiatic" specimens...
...himself talked about was last year, when he divorced his first wife to marry young and pretty Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a Silesian judge. Nevertheless, he possesses the thoroughness, persistence and greatness in his field that have made the Army the highest expression of German efficiency and perhaps the greatest Army in the world...
...Poland produces only 500,000 tons of oil a year, and oil is Germany's greatest need. Her peacetime imports were 4,000,000 tons, and to run her war machine she will probably need 8,000,000 tons. Even a light French motorized division needs 423 gallons of gasoline to move a mile, and Germany's Panzerdimsionen with tanks and armored trucks burn many times that much fuel. Darting in and out, operating far from base and covering scores of miles on each raid, their refueling problem becomes tremendous. If Germany is to fight a long...
...Greatest value of the test is that it can detect the presence of cancer cells long before any growth appears on the body...
...greatest, most tragic failure of the Christian Church in modern times was that it was unable to halt the slow march of Christendom toward World War II. The World Council of Churches, a federation of the greatest non-Roman communions, was born too late to help; it is not even yet operating officially. Unofficially, the Council last July summoned a "board of strategy" of 32 men and two women to meet in a Swiss hotel, draw up a program of Christian international strategy. A long statement of their views was published last week in The Christian Century, with an introduction...