Word: greatest
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...