Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest Threat. Chiang would try to fight on from Formosa, though the U.S. and British governments had written off the strategic island. Actually, Formosa (the size of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, pop. 7,200,000) could be a strong redoubt; it is one of Asia's most prosperous areas, carefully developed by the Japanese in half a century of colonial rule. Its paddy fields can grow three rice crops a year. It has large sugar and tea plantations, banana groves,, camphor forests. Its Jap-built industry includes sugar mills, waterworks, hydroelectric stations, an aluminum plant...
...university community that this questionnaire, as recently amplified by the Navy ruling, works the greatest damage. An NROTC student who has to testify to his past purity is subjected to a form of political intimidation. If he wishes to avoid trouble, he will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible...
...attempt to accomplish this goal by office standards would be unsatisfactory the budget of a department were determined some combination of the number of its contractors and of students in its courses, the great variety which Harvard offers, and which considered by many one of its greatest strength would suffer drastically--if not be too destroyed. Also the next vacancy in any department could be summarily cancelled given to another department, instructors assistant professors could have no sense security at Harvard, and they would be quite to snap up permanent positions elsewhere...
There were other good wishes for the greatest Briton of his time. Telegrams, letters and parcels poured in on him all day. Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid toasted him at a lunch in the Danish embassy, while in the streets outside a huge crowd greeted him with shouts of "Good old Winnie!" "His life," said London's Evening Standard, "is the most important individual strand in the weave of the 20th Century...
Christianity's foreign missions today face the "greatest crisis of [their] history," according to Dean Listen, Pope of Yale Divinity School in the current Christianity and Crisis. The main trouble is neither lack of funds nor manpower, but the "political, economic and racial revolutions in many parts of the world...