Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affricans composed a blunt letter to Don Luciano: "It is with the greatest sorrow that we learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...power, is in the penetrating power of its high-speed, ultra-shortwave rays. Ordinary rays do most of their work at the skin surface or just below it, and are then dissipated. In large doses they cause serious skin burns. The betatron's supercharged rays have their greatest impact on malignant cells from an inch to an inch and a half below the surface...
...young man, wearing No. 6 on his back, stepped to the plate. Stan ("The Man") Musial was at bat and the crowd really let go. A hard-bitten minority booed, but they were drowned out by the cheers. It was Brooklyn's sportsmanlike tribute to one of the greatest players in the game. Stan Musial is the highest salaried (at $50,000 a year) and most feared batter in the National League-and especially devastating in Brooklyn, where he has batted well over .500 this season. When Musial grounded out that first time UD, Ebbets Field breathed more easily...
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Eloquent and powerful, this war-written symphony by the dean of English composers is one of this century's greatest. Performance and recording: good...
There was no hobbling modesty about her copy either. The compound was "The Greatest Medical Discovery Since the Dawn of History." To U.S. women tortured by tight corsets and breath-killing clothes, she cooed: "That feeling of bearing down...is always permanently cured by its use." The list of complaints which the compound was supposed to cure ran the gamut from dysmenorrhea to nymphomania. Derisively, some citizens suggested that only one claim remained to be made-"A Baby in Every Bottle." As the Pinkham company grew, however, it dropped some of the more extravagant claims and emphasized the value...