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Word: greatest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... If TIME has no rule against gangster pictures,* I offer as candidate for your front cover the greatest gangster of our times- the only mobster to hijack a great nation, the only racketeer to shake down an entire race of mankind-Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...people who want the river are, of course, southern Californians who get only 15 inches of rain in an average year. Their greatest waterboy of all time was a Grand Old Man, the late William Mulholland. He fetched them a river from the snowy slopes of the Sierras by way of the Owens Valley Aqueduct ($25,000,000). And when the people of the Los Angeles region promptly multiplied to 3,000,000, he set out to fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waterboys | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...stove. Typical repast: "fish chowder" (boiled onions, rice, a can of sardines). William Schmidt, 68, is knotty with muscle and so bent from years and decades of working in a tunnel that he can hardly straighten up. But last week mining men were saying that he had accomplished the greatest one-man mining achievement in the history of engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Black Mountain Tunnel | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Youthful operators unquestionably have the greatest accident incidence," says Dr. Harry R. DeSilva, Lecturer in Psychology, in "Age and Highway Accidents," an article in December's "Scientific Monthly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Age Autoists Are Least Safe of All Highway Drivers, Claims De Silva | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...drink too many, and not because Bob is the superior strategist. In place of the original author's dramatic conclusion, doubtless because it involved a dog-fight abhorrent to the S.P.C.A., a weak and insipidly sentimental one has been created; and, all in all, the fundamental power of "the greatest dog story ever filmed" has been lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

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