Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means by which people were raised to unprecedented heights of jingoism by master professional, propagandists may be understood in every line. Something new in the world at the time, the posters are simple and direct, but very effective, and even now when war is considered the world's greatest evil, they have a punch which strikes home in a forceful manner...
SHANGHAI, Tuesday, Oct. 11--Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei, China's famed "ironsides" commander, claimed the greatest victory of the Chinese-Japanese war today, asserting that he had virtually wiped out the Japanese 101st division from Tokyo in a series of smashing counter attacks on the Nanchang front southeast of Hankow...
...Billy Direct, four-year-old pacer: a mile race (against time) in 1 min. 55 sec.; at long last breaking world's record of 1:55∧ which has stood since 1905 as the greatest speed of a harness horse (pacer or trotter); at Lexington, Ky. Next day, six-year-old Greyhound, No. 1 trotter of the decade, stepped a mile in 1: 55¼ breaking the 1:56 world's trotting record* he set a year...
...Giovanni (Mon. 11:05 p.m. NBC-Blue). Act I of Mozart's greatest opera; sung by San Francisco Opera Co. Fritz Reiner conducts...
...intuitive inventor in the art of painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...